HYDERABAD, Nov 10: A central leader of the Sindh Bachayo Committee, or Save Sindh committee, said on Saturday that certain elements were trying to create misgivings among nationalists, but they would contest election from one platform.Speaking at a pubic meeting against the new local government law, SBC convener Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah made it clear that there were no differences among the nationalists whom he said were united on one platform.

The public meeting was held in Tando Allahyar on Nasarpur Road.

Mr Shah vowed to face what he called traitors in the next general elections.

He said that that the law was causing hatred among the people of Sindh, who would not accept a division of their motherland.

Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party chief Dr Qadir Magsi said that the local government law could only be enforced over dead bodies.

He pledged to protect every inch of the motherland i.e. Sindh province, and added that the ‘true sons of the soil knew how to protect their land’. “Rulers hatched a conspiracy to hand over Sindh to others, but the people of Sindh will not let anyone conspire against Sindh.”

He said that ever since 1947 Sindh had been subjected to atrocities and different regimes and parliaments had enacted anti-Sindh laws.

He announced dissociation from those who had moved the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the promulgation of the new local government ordinance, which had become an act of assembly.

Dr Magsi said that the Sindh Assembly used to be considered a protector of Sindh, but it enacted anti-Sindh legislation.

He said that it was due to the traitors that such a law was enacted.

He urged the people of Sindh to elect a new leadership to protect their permanent interests.

Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palejo berated the PPP and held the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto responsible for the separation of East Pakistan.

He said that a military operation was launched in Balochistan during the Bhutto government. Now, he said, it was the PPP government which left 30 million people of Sindh inundated.

He said that in the past many PPP leaders had claimed that they would not let anyone divide Sindh, but they had themselves paved the way for the division of Sindh through the local government law.

He said that the system was being enforced because international powers wanted to usurp mineral resources of Sindh.

Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl termed the local government law an attempt to divide Sindh and Pakistan under a US agenda.

He said that in the next general elections sureties of the present rulers would be forfeited.

He demanded that all those named in the Asghar Khan case should be declared disqualified for five years.

Nusrat Sehar Abbasi of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional said that the rulers had bargained over Sindh.

She said that those who were part of the current struggle would not rest unless this law was repealed.

She took a pledge from crowd that they would continue their struggle against the law.

She said that the PML-F considered the LG law as a matter of life and death.

Others who spoke on the occasion included Azhar Jatoi of the Sindh Hari Committee, Abrar Kazi of the Awami Jamhori Party, Qambar Bhatti of the Jeay Sindh Qaum Parast Party and Nazar Kah Lala of Pakhtunkhaw Milli Awami Party.