HYDERABAD, Dec 26: The Sindh Graduates Association (SGA) has urged the government to take effective measures against murder of innocent women on the pretext of karo-kari and roll back the project highly destructive project of Left Bank Outfall Canal.

The SGA at its 30th annual convention held on Sunday demanded that the government should acknowledge Sindh's rights over its mineral resources and income. Altaf Gorar presided over the convention.

The convention demanded that the government should make all the appointments at federal and provincial level exclusively on merit, create job opportunities for the unemployed youth of Sindh and extend them loans to open their own business houses.

The gathering strongly opposed the construction of Kalabagh Dam and all the other dams proposed to be constructed on River Indus and demanded that the government should secure the fishermen’s rights.

It demanded that the government should reopen the Dadu sugar mills and accommodate 900 workers who were out of jobs due to the mills closure in different government departments.

The convention strongly criticised settling outsiders in Sindh and demanded that the governments should regularise all the Sindhi villages and reopen all the closed primary schools.

It opposed the alleged expulsion of Sindhi doctors from Karachi and demanded that a separate column for mother tongue should be inserted in the NICs.

On this occasion, Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo, Dr G. A. Allana and Altaf Hussain Gorar launched ‘Shah Jo Risalo’ in Sindhi and Urdu languages compiled by noted scholar and chairperson of Shah Latif Chair of Karachi University Ms Fehmida Hussain.