HYDERABAD, Sept 8: The Labour Party Pakistan has held the ruling clique, comprising landlords and capitalists, responsible for poverty, unemployment, economic plight and insecurity in Sindh.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday, party chairman Nisar Shah said the rulers during the last 57 years had given nothing to people, except for poverty, unemployment and illiteracy, and added that people of Sindh had suffered the most.

He claimed that privatization of educational institutes and national enterprises and construction of the Kalabagh dam, greater Thal canal and the Gwadar port were part and parcel of the imperialist agenda of the rulers.

Mr Shah said the LPP would stage a rally in Lahore in December to protest against political and economic policies of the rulers and construction of disputed Kalabagh dam and Thal canal projects.

He also condemned the military operation in Balochistan and demanded that the government should remove apprehensions of people of the province with regard to the Gwadar port and usurpation of their resources. He said the LPP would hold a provincial congress in Hyderabad on Sept 26 to elect office-bearers for next two years.