HYDERABAD, April 2: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi demanded on Monday that all the missing persons who had been picked up by ‘agencies’ in Sindh and Balochistan should be released.

Speaking at a gathering at Hyder Chowk on Monday after his party’s Paigham-i-Sindh caravan reached Hyderabad, he said that every worker of the party was ready to go to jails or be hanged for the rights of Sindh.

He said that they would not withdraw their historic rights as Sindhis had maintained a separate identity for thousands of years despite innumerable attacks by outsiders.

He blamed Punjab for usurping Sindh's resources and said that Sindh had been enslaved in the name of religion and Pakistan. "We consider Urdu speaking people our brothers and part of Sindhis but they must prove their loyalty to Sindh," he said.

"No one knows why Asif Baladi and Dr. Safdar Sarki were picked up but every worker of JSQM is ready to go to gallows or get imprisoned for them," he said. Reacting to Ameer Bhambro’s attacks on Mumtaz Bhutto, Dr Qadir Magsi and other nationalists for not joining JSQM's march, Mr Qureshi said that he had no complaints against any nationalist party or group but they should bear it in mind that Sindh today was surrounded by multi-dimensional dangers.

He dismissed the government’s statements on provincial autonomy a fraud and urged people to join the march in Karachi on April 12.

The party’s vice-chairman Dr. Niaz Kalani complained that media did not give due coverage to the march.

He said that around 32,000 barrel of oil was produced in Badin daily which was worth Rs180 million while 500 tonnes of gas worth Rs16.8 million was produced by JJVL but Sindh received nothing in return and the number of Sindhi employees at the fields was marginal. In Khanote only 300 Sindhis were employed in coal mines, he added.