SANN, April 25 Thousands of activists of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM), Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) attended death anniversary programmes of G.M. Syed held separately by different factions on Saturday.

JSQM chairman Basheer Khan Qureshi said Punjab usurped the resources of Sindh and deprived its people of their rights. He was speaking at a gathering after laying a wreath at the grave of G.M. Syed and offering fateha.He said the followers of Syed would never allow Taliban in Sindh and would protect its people. Karachi belonged to Sindhis; its separation from Sindh wouldn`t be allowed, he added.

Dr Safdar Sarki said people were facing hunger, poverty and unemployment. He appealed to professionals for joining the JSQM for the rights of Sindh. Mohammad Rahimoon, Akash Mallah, Zafar Korejo and Shabbir Jamali also spoke on the fourteenth death anniversary of Jeay Sindh Tahreek (JST) founder G.M Syed observed in his native town Sann district Jamshoro on Saturday.

Earlier, G.M. Syed`s family members, led by Sindh United Party (SUP) president Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, laid a wreath and offered fateha at the grave. A sufi song was also sung.

Hundreds of activists of the JSM reached the grave of Mr Syed under the leadership of its chairman Riaz Chandio.

Speaking at the gathering of his party workers, Mr Chandio said Syed had laid the foundation of Sindhi nationalism while late Z.A. Bhutto and Pir Pagaro started feudal and federal politics.

He said Mr Syed challenged feudalism and discarded traditional politics.

He said G.M. Syed had told international communities in a Vienna peace conference that world forces and Pakistani establishment were supporting religious elements in Pakistan which would threaten the entire world. And that had been proved, he said, adding that “we believe in co-existence and non-violence preached by mystics and Syed”.

He said that a conspiracy was afoot to convert indigenous people into minority through the MQM and others. He said that on May 3, the JSM would start a movement outside Karachi and all press clubs of Sindh to motivate the people.

Mumtaz Bhutto, Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah and Basheer Khan Qureshi would also be invited.

He appealed to the MQM, PML-F, PPP and other parties not to allow Burmese and Bangalis to register their names in Sindh.

He reminded the Pakhtoon community that they were in Karachi for livelihood only.

RESOLUTIONS Resolutions adopted by the JSM on the occasion called for a UN probe into killings of three Baloch leaders and Samiullah Kalhoro, release of missing workers; handing over of natural resources to Sindh, no other dam over Indus, implementation of 1945 Water Accord and ownership of Indus to Sindhis, expulsion of aliens from Sindh and recognition of migrants who came before 1954 as Sindhis.

MQM An MQM delegation led by MPA Akram Adil and adviser to Sindh chief minister Izhar-ul Hassan also laid a wreath and offered fateha for G.M Syed.

ARISAR GROUP Speaking at a gathering, chief of his own faction, JSQM, Abdul Wahid Arisar, said Mr Syed had predicted in 1972 that Balochistan was unsafe in Pakistan, and the time had proved it.

He said Syed`s ideology and philosophy could make Sindh and its people prosperous.

Sindh was the land of Shah Laif and Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, and there was no room for Talbanisation.

The JSMM held its programme with the JSQM (Arisar Group). JSMM leaders Muzaffar Bhutto and Asghar Shah also addressed the gathering.