THATTA, Feb 17: Speakers at a meeting, held in Makli on Sunday, deplored human rights violations, political victimization, police excesses, usurpation of national wealth and abuse of power by elected representatives in the Thatta district.

The speakers, including Sindh Awami Tehrik (SAT) chief Rasool Bux Palijo, Pakistan People’s Party Sindh Council member Ayaz Khwaja, former and sitting MNAs and MPAs of the PPP, and party activists, said strategies should be made to get people relieved by providing them with moral and legal support and through political motivation.

They said irrespective of political affiliations, joint efforts should be made to help people who were being victimized as majority of them could not afford to go to courts.

Blaming the Shirazi group for political victimization in the district, the speakers said the Shirazis had lodged false case against their opponents.

They alleged the Shirazis were behind road robberies in the district and were also involved in usurpation of state resources.

The PPP’s MPAs said they would take the issue in the next session of the Sindh Assembly.

The meeting unanimously adopted several resolutions, demanding proper release of irrigation water to Thatta district, withdrawal of false cases against political activists, transfer of district administrators, including the DCO and the DPO, who they said were supporting the Shirazis.

The meeting announced a protest rally would be staged in the town on Feb 28. PPP leader Nisar Ahmad Khuhro and SAT chief Rasool Bux Palijo will lead the rally.

The meeting also formed a forty-member committee which would have to collect and compile data of human rights violations, police excesses and false cases.

The committee would also act as an advisory wing and would provide legal and moral help to victims.