LONDON, Oct 19: The UK-based Sindh Doctors’ Forum (SDF) has appealed to the PPP-led government to undo what it called the wrongs done to rural Sindh during the long years of former president Pervez Musharraf’s rule.

Talking to Pakistan High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan at a reception hosted for him on Saturday by the SDF, the office-bearers of the forum narrated “the woes that befell the rural Sindhis during the last nine years of total neglect” and requested him to convey their concerns about it to President Zardari.

The SDP said they were concerned about the state of the health and education sectors in rural Sindh as during the last ten years “the people of rural Sindh were denied even rudimentary health and educational facilities by both the centre and the provincial governments”.

The forum urged the government to ensure that students from rural Sindh were not discriminated against in admissions to institutions in urban areas.