HYDERABAD, Nov 8: The president of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement, Dr Qadir Magsi, has condemned the retrenchment of Sindhi employees from the Pak-Saudi Fertilizer Factory.

He also criticised the closure of the Sindhi-medium school by the factory’s new management.

In a statement issued here, Magsi, who is also the chairman of the Sindh Tarraqi Pasand Party, accused the management of the factory of bias against the Sindhi people.

This bias, he said, had become clearer after the new management had published an advertisement for recruitment in a Rawalpindi-based newspaper despite the fact that the factory was located in Sindh.

Sindh’s agricultural sector, he said, had been destroyed because of acute shortage of water and at the same time the Sindhi people were being deprived of employment opportunities in all government department.

Magsi accused both the Nawaz Sharif government and the present military rulers of retrenching thousands of Sindhi people from various organisations.

The people of the province, he said, were being haunted by state oppression, police excesses, bandits, tyranny of the Waderas, spiralling price hike and rampant joblessness.

He added that these social evils had deprived the Sindhi people of all their fundamental human rights, including the right to life.

He warned against excessive oppression, saying that the people had always rebelled against the rulers whenever they had been pushed against the wall, even resulting in the disintegration of the country. He urged the rulers to ask the government functionaries to mend their ways.