HYDERABAD: Several thousand people attended the 35th ‘Motherland Day’ programme organised by the Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) at Hatri Bypass Ground in Hyderabad to reaffirm their resolve to protect Sindh’s rights and resources.
The programme started on Saturday evening and continued into late night.
Addressing the participants, STP Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said that the forces inimical to Sindh were out to hatch conspiracies to divide Sindh, but he and his followers were there to protect every inch of Sindh’s land.
“We will not let anyone to continue hatching such conspiracies,” he declared while mentioning that these enemies of Sindh were raising non-issues like new province with the aim of creating hatred among people of the province.
“They are causing provocation, but saner elements will not let them succeed,” he said.
Party vows to defend every inch of Sindh’s land; Qadir Magsi advises political solution to issues of ‘oppressed nations’
He said this huge gathering of STP workers reaffirms that they would defend their land till the last drop of blood. “The presence of party workers in such a large number today indicates that they stand with the STP,” he said. He cautioned that lawmakers would face wrath of people of Sindh if they approved the constitutional amendment aimed at dividing Sindh.
Dr Magsi said that some corrupt capitalists in Karachi and Lahore were talking about new provinces to be carved out from within Sindh. The country needed rule of law, not new provinces, he stressed.
“Only a strong economy could overcome the crises being faced by the country,” he said, and observed that Sindh was facing critical conditions at the moment.
He called for capital punishment for the offence of corruption in order to banish this menace. “It’s something essentially required to be done to ensure strengthening the national economy,” he said, adding that other problems would stand resolved automatically.
Expressing his view on interprovincial discord, he said the country faced two issues, one relating to Sindhi, Baloch, Pakhtun and Seraiki people within their respective dimensions, and the other to the entire 250m people. “The issues with oppressed nations cannot be resolved by using guns. There has to be a dialogue with them,” he said.
He added that that out of the 250m people, only around 500,000 people were the real beneficiaries of the present system. In order to put things in right direction, a merit-based system was required to fix the issues concerning the judiciary, electoral politics and rule of Constitution and law.
He was critical of some nationalist entities who were showing inclination towards Taliban and those becoming proxies of international forces, and said that STP, however, wanted to rebuild the Sindhi nation.
He lambasted Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for “blackmailing the powers that be by implying that if it was not given share in power, then separatists would gain ground in Sindh. “Everyone needs to understand that PPP has a fake mandate … the ground reality is that without providing official transport means and food to people, it cannot hold a single gathering like today’s STP programme,” he claimed.
The gathering adopted several resolutions calling for respecting sovereignty and rights of provinces to make Pakistan a true federalist state where all nations should have equal rights; making Pakistan a true people’s republic; giving provinces first right over the resources produced there; bringing an end to occupation of Sindh’s lands and creating housing societies for commercial gains; doing away with illegal settlements in Sindh; giving Sindh its due share in water, putting an end to all water projects over Indus; making Sindhi language a compulsory subject from school to varsity level; and ensuring adequate prices of seed, fertilisers and pesticides to be paid to growers.
Published in Dawn, February 16th, 2026