HYDERABAD, March 8: The Anti-Greater Thal Canal and Kalabagh Dam Action Committee has rejected the All-Party Conference on provincial autonomy convened by the Sindh government and called it a farce.
The committee has decided to organise a protest rally in Mirpurkhas on April 19, and a sit-in at Kamoon Shaheed, the border of Punjab on May 12, against the proposed construction of dams on River Indus, auction of Sindh's islands and the demolition of Sindhi villages in Karachi.
A meeting of the action committee held at the residence of Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi MPA on Wednesday was presided by Peoples Party Parliamentarians reader Syed Qaim Ali Shah.
The committee condemned the attack on Sindh Agriculture University and demanded the arrest of newsman Munir Sangi’s murderers, the withdrawal of case against photo-journalist Hadi Sangi and protection to the journalists of Sindh.
Briefing reporters, Syed Qaim Ali Shah said “excesses by the rulers had crossed all limits. Both federal and Sindh governments were disposing of Sindh’s lands and their coalition partners were trying to grab that land.”
He said “sale of provincial properties by the federal government was illegal and unconstitutional and a conspiracy was afoot to destroy Sindh by constructing dams on the River Indus.”
Qaim Ali Shah said “an inquiry should be ordered by the high court judges to probe the attack on Tandojam Agriculture University.”
The APC was farce he said and added that the government had appointed committees on provincial autonomy issue but without any substantial results.
Answering a question, he said “if the government tried to postpone the elections, people will raise strong resistance.”
He further said that the rulers may be unaware of the hatred people carry against them and if elections were held at this stage the government was sure of receiving a crushing defeat and will face strong resistance if it tried to postpone these.
Those who attended the meeting included Awami Tahreek chief, Rasool Bux Palijo; Sindh Taraqi Passand Party chairman, Dr Qadir Magsi; PML-N leader Makhdoom Shahnawaz, SNF leader Ayoub Shar, JUI leader Taj Mohammad Nahiyoon, Moulana Abdul Waheed Qureshi of Jamat-e-Islami, PPP's MPAs Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi and Zahid Bhurgari, Nadeem Memon, Afzal Gujjar, Abrar Qazi and others.
UPLIFT WORK: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has sought transparency in expenditure on ongoing development schemes and their timely completion.
Speaking at a meeting on Wednesday, he said that the city had faced negligence in the past which had ingrained sense of deprivation among the people who now looked to the district government for redressing their problems. “You must come up to the expectations of the people”, the nazim exhorted the officials of different government departments.
