HYDERABAD, March 17: Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians president Qaim Ali Shah has said that like MNAs and MPAs of Punjab, party legislators in Sindh have also sent their resignations to party chairperson Benazir Bhutto.

He was talking to reporters at the conclusion of the Sindh council meeting of the PPP held at the residence of Imdad Pitafi in Qasimabad on Thursday evening.

Replying to a questioner, he said that it was the demand of the MMA and the ARD that an impartial government should be appointed in the country to hold general elections under an independent and autonomous election commission.

He said that an inquiry was being conducted at the party level about six votes which had not been cast in favour of party candidates in the senate elections.

He said that all institutions and the entire educational system had been totally destroyed and despite ban on employment, people were being appointed on various posts on the basis of favouritism and nepotism.

The PPP leader said that lawlessness was at its peak in Sindh and incidents of kidnapping for ransom and excesses against women were on the rise.

He said that Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim was suffering from Benazir and Asif Ali Zardari phobia and singing hymns in praise of General Musharraf to prolong his rule.

He said that under direct orders of the Sindh governor, Sindhi villages were being demolished. Mr Shah said that demonstrations were being held in Sindh but the government had remained indifferent.

He said that he had moved a resolution in the assembly that no Sindhi settlement would be demolished which was adopted unanimously.

He said that people sitting in the Sindh government had trampled over the resolution and rendered thousands of families shelterless.

He said that in some areas of Karachi, even the illegal settlers had been provided alternate accommodation and compensation for their displacement but the Sindhi people were evicted by force. He said the PPP in collaboration with other parties and groups would soon evolve some strategy on the issue.

MNAs Fehmida Mirza and Shagufta Jumani, MPAs Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman and Zahid Bhurgari, Sattar Buchani and Imdad Pitafi were present on the occasion.