HYDERABAD, May 24: The chairman of Sindh Taraqi Passand Party, Dr Qadir Magsi, has condemned a proposal for dividing Sindh into three provinces and warned that any such move will have disastrous consequences.

In a statement faxed to Dawn on Tuesday, he said that it was an agenda of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s chief, Altaf Hussain, and the federal government to deprive Sindhis of their right to autonomy.

Sindh had a separate identity and thousands of years of history and culture, he said, adding the province had joined Pakistan on the guarantees of autonomy, sovereignty and ownership of its own resources as enshrined in the 1940 resolution.

He said that nobody had the right to tamper with the demography of Sindh, and lashed MQM leaders for supporting the construction of big dams.