KARACHI, March 28: Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that nobody can stop Sindhis, who are the heirs of Sindh, to come and live in Karachi. “Until I am the chief minister of Sindh, no one can cause harm to the rights of Sindh, Sindhi language and Sindhis,” he said in a statement officially released here on Tuesday.

He said that nobody could stop Sindhis coming to their own city when hundreds of thousands of aliens were settled in the metropolis. “Nobody should have any objection over it,” he said.

He said that the legitimate old villages of Karachi could not be razed nor anyone would be allowed to take any such action.

However, he made it clear that land mafia would not be allowed to continue their illegal business of encroachment.

The chief minister said Karachi was a metropolitan city where people from Punjab, the NWFP, Balochistan and other areas had been coming for the last one century in search of livelihood. But, Sindhis never raised any objection. In fact, he said, Sindh was the only province of Pakistan where people of all the provinces were living together with peace.

Arbab Rahim reiterated that no one could harm the interests of Sindhis as long as he held the office of chief minister of this province.

Reports denied: A Governor’s House spokesman on Tuesday described the impression given by a section of electronic media regarding differences between Governor Ishratul Ibad and Chief Minister Arbab Rahim as wrong.

The spokesman made it clear that both governor and chief minister were keen for the progress and prosperity of Sindh province and its people and their visit to Islamabad was also in this very context.

He said that Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad was guiding the provincial government without any discrimination and monitoring uplift activities.—PPI/APP