HYDERABAD: Leaders of several nationalist parties have endorsed the call for observing a Sindh-wide protest on Nov 9 against unabated incidents of alleged enforced disappearance in the province and the proposed 27th Amendment.

They held a meeting at the residence of Jeay Sindh Mahaz-Riaz (JSM-R) Chairman Riaz Ali Chandio on Tuesday,

It was attended by Dr Niaz Kalani of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz-Bashir, Mohammad Ali Khushik of the Jeay Sindh Qaum Parast Party, Roshan Buriro of the Sindh United Party, Altaf Khaskheli of the Qaumi Awami Tehreek, analyst Jami Chandio and Pushpa Kumari of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), among others.

Speaking at the meeting a Riaz Chandio said that the 26th Constitutional Amendment had already committed excesses against Sindh and now the proposed 27th Amendment sought to create new provinces and undermine the NFC Award by depriving Sindh of its resources.

The leaders believed that the proposed amendment was aimed at hitting the integrity of Sindh and, therefore, it would not be accepted.

Demanding release of all “victims of enforced disappearance” in Sindh, they claimed that some of those who were earlier let off, were picked up again and implicated in false cases registered under the Explosives Act. They said such steps and extrajudicial actions must stop now.

The gathering also adopted some resolutions, which said that no attempt to loot and plunder resources of Sindh would be accepted; powers that be should desist from plans to endanger the identity of Sindhis, Pashtuns and Balochs; all missing persons should be “released”; and violation of fundamental rights in Sindh must stop.

Later, Riaz Chandio said the proposed amendment would bring the proposal for the division of Sindh, but ‘Islamabad’ must remember that Sindh was the motherland of Sindhis and all conspiracies would be foiled. He termed the PPP a ‘national criminal’ as it was partner in crime in all conspiracies against Sindh.

He observed that the PPP’s parliamentarians must remember that it would be difficult for them to return to Sindh. He said it was also the violation of international rights bodies’ convention that people were picked up and their whereabouts remained unknown. He said activists picked up by police were not produced before courts.

Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2025