KHAIRPUR, June 12: Former district nazim Nafisa Shah has said that annual increment in salaries and pension was a routine matter and the budget contained nothing new for the low income group of the society.

Talking to delegations of PPP workers here on Tuesday, she said that no relief was given to poor and termed the federal budget rich people-friendly.

She said that allocation of funds for construction of Kalabagh dam was a malafide act of the federal government.

Referring to tribal disputes in northern parts of Sindh, she said that majority of feudals and sardars involved in tribal disputes were sitting in federal and provincial government and demanded an inquiry into the matter.

She added that present government had strengthened sardars and created new sardars in northern part of the province due to which Sardari system was running parallel with the government in the areas where tribal disputes were going on.

She said that until and unless people got justice under a regular legal system and murderers arrested, an end to tribal disputes was almost impossible.

She added that supremacy of law and justice was the first priority for solution of these disputes. She added that Sindh chief minister had also developed a political sardari system in Sindh which was an undemocratic and unlawful act.

JSQM: Chairman Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Basheer Khan Qureshi, has said that there was no law in Sindh and government had failed to end the tribal disputes.

Talking to journalists on Tuesday during his campaign to take delegations along with social leaders to tribal heads in Sukkur, Rohri and other parts of upper Sindh to motivate them to end the tribal disputes, he said that government's mismanagement, poor law and order and inefficiency were major factors in igniting tribal disputes.

He said that JSQM was putting in efforts to bring an end to tribal disputes.

He said that JSQM would soon hold a meeting to chalk out a strategy against allocation of budget for construction of controversial Kalabagh dam.

He said that JSQM was concerned over holding of the Loya Jirga of Pakhtoons in Karachi adding that this gave an impression as if the Pakhtoons were occupying Sindh.

He added that Loya Jirga was aimed to exert pressure on a lose coalition ruling Sindh and to extract some relief from them.

He added that Pakhtoon have their own province and they will have to leave Sindh one day. He added that JSQM was of the view that Karachi belonged to Sindhis and JSQM would not accept any such claim by the others.

He said that JSQM would stage a demonstration on the National Highway near Therhi on June 24.

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