HYDERABAD, Nov 1: The Jeay Sindh Mahaz (Junejo faction) has accused the Sindh chapter of Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (Ponam) of violating the charter and constitution of the “Movement” by granting membership of Ponam to the Zain Shah group.

In a statement, JSM information secretary Hashim Khoso said that the Ponam had come into existence to strive for the independence and sovereignty of the oppressed nations and to struggle against the supremacy of Punjab and the injustices of the state.

He, however, said that the Sindh chapter of Ponam had greatly harmed this cause by violating its own constitution and granting membership to the Zain Shah group.

He pointed out that under the constitution of the “Movement”, only those parties were eligible for membership, which had either signed the Islamabad declaration or applied for membership at a later stage.

He said the Zain Shah group had not complied with these mandatory provisions of the constitution yet it attended the meeting of the Sindh chapter as a regular member of the movement.

He feared that this was the beginning of the end of the Ponam because any organisation, which did not respect and abide by its own laws, could not snatch national rights from a tyrant state.

He said the JSM, which had signed on the Islamabad declaration was the only genuine member of the Ponam and not any other faction. He appealed to the central leadership of Ponam to take notice of the constitutional violations by the Sindh chapter to save the Ponam from disintegration.

Meanwhile, the vice chairman of Zain Shah faction of JSM, Agha Qamar, in a separate statement, has claimed that the Sindh council of Ponam had rejected the objections of Abdul Khaliq Junejo on the ground that Mr Junejo had signed on the Islamabad declaration as the chairman of the Mahaz and he was no longer the chairman because in the party elections, Zain Shah had been elected as the new chairman.