HYDERABAD, July 12: The Sindh National Party (SNP) would hold demonstrations throughout the province on July 20 and lay siege to the houses of Sindh governor and chief minister on July 27 in protest against the government’s anti-Sindh policies and discrimination in provision of jobs, said SNP Chairman Ameer Bhambhro on Thursday.

He said at a news conference at the press club that under a planned conspiracy, Sindhis were being deprived of their political social, educational and economic rights.

The establishment abolished five districts of Karachi to set up Karachi city government to appease the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and tore apart Hyderabad district into four small districts to hand it over to the ethnic group, he said.

He said that the Karachi city government had bulldozed old Sindhi villages and settlements and converted more than 500 Sindhi medium schools into Urdu medium.

The compulsory Sindhi subject for the first year and intermediate students had been cancelled and abolished admission quota in the Dow Medical College and other educational institutions of Karachi for the rest of province, he said.

Mr Bhambhro said that the Sindhi islands and coastal areas were being handed over to foreign companies and non-Sindhis and local Sindhis were being expelled under the pretext of constructing green belts and raising modern towns.

Besides, Sindhis working in government and semi-government organisations in Karachi who had domiciles of interior Sindh were being transferred and the employments in multinational companies and banks was being given only to the people who belonged to a particular group, he alleged.

In Hyderabad district, Mr Bhambhro said that no development work was being carried out in Sindhi majority areas whereas trauma centre, Nadra office and schools approved for Sindhi localities were being shifted to other areas.

He said that the ethnic group was trying to drive a wedge between the Urdu speaking people and Sindhis and held the group responsible for shedding the blood of Sindhis, Balochis, Pathans, Punjabis and even its own Urdu speaking people. He urged all the political parties, social welfare organisations and nationalist groups to boycott MQM.