HYDERABAD: Sind Chief Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi declared here today [Feb 4] that there could be no discrimination between the various sections of population in Sind on account of language or place of origin. “In Sind, we are all Sindhis, and Pakistanis,” the Chief Minister said at a reception. … The people’s Government both at the Centre and in the provinces was serving the people “without any discrimination”.

He said he did not like to refer [to] anybody as “Muhajir”, adding that they might have been “Muhajirs” 25 years ago but now they were all Sindhis and Pakistanis, like the other people of Sind. He said during the last general elections, political parties opposed to the PPP had propagated that PPP was against Islam, and a large number of ulema belonging to these parties had come out with “fatwas” against Premier Bhutto and the Party. This propaganda had affected the religious minded people.

“However, since we came to power, we have given ample proof that no government serves Islam better than us,” he explained. This, he said, was the reason that people from all walks of life ... were now joining the PPP in large numbers.

Published in Dawn, February 5th, 2025