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| April 16, 2006 | Sunday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 17, 1427 |
Regularisation of old villages demanded
HYDERABAD, April 15: Elected representatives, writers and educationists have demanded that old villages in Karachi and Hyderabad should be regularized.
They were speaking at a conference “Stop Expulsion of Sindhis from Karachi and Hyderabad” at the local press club on Friday.
The conference was organized by the Awami Tehrik.
Two committees — a legal and another technical — were formed on the occasion for the protection of resources of Sindh.
In his presidential speech, Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo said that the people of Sindh were being deprived of their inherit rights and resources.
He said that conspiracies were being hatched to convert Sindhis into a minority through demolition of Sindhi villages in urban cities.
Mr Palijo said that all illegal decisions could be challenged under the law but unfortunately no one had even considered the option.
He said that if a few good jurists were to take up the issue seriously the decisions could be successfully challenged adding that no court would come to rescue of the government.
Mr Palijo said that in this regard Awami Tehrik had formed a legal committee to contact leading jurists in Karachi.
He said that the people of Sindh were now not prepared to accept any deal but needed a government which could protect Sindh’s waters, resources and land.
He said that if the people of Sindh were to abandon “fake nationalism” and “false democracy” and unite on one platform, they would ultimately emerge victorious.
MPA Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman said the authorities had challenged the self respect of the people by demolishing their villages in Karachi and Hyderabad.
He said the authorities were demolishing Sindhi villages in utter violation of the Sindh assembly’s resolution on the subject.
He called upon the Sindhi nation to forget their petty differences and unite on one platform to launch a joint struggle for their rights.
MPA Sassui Palijo said that a conspiracy was afoot to divide Thatta district by creating a new district based on coastal areas.
She said the conspiracy would be foiled.
Former Sindh minister Muzaffar Sadiq Bhatti said that an ethnic group wanted to take over sovereignty and the chief ministership of Sindh.
He said that following the division of Hyderabad district and reopening of the Khokhropar route it has become all more necessary that the Sindhis should unite and launch a struggle for their rights.
Prof Mushtaq Mirani said that racialism was being officially patronized by the government and alleged that those who were involved in heinous crimes, were ruling over Sindh.
Mr Mirani claimed that many a people who have migrated from India, had occupied properties in Karachi and Hyderabad illegally.
Ayaz Latif Palijo said that Sindhi villages in urban areas were being demolished to settle more outsiders.
MPA Zahid Bhurgari, Hafeez, Abrar Qazi, Nazeer Memon, Nazeer Qureshi, Zahida Shaikh, Ahmed Laghari, Dr Rajab Memon and Badar Soomro spoke on the occasion.
The conference adopted several resolutions demanding judicial inquiry under the leadership of chief justice of Pakistan into the murders of political and religious leaders in Karachi.
Another resolution demanded that the demolition of villages should be immediately stopped and the affected people should be paid compensation and rehabilitated.
Yet another resolution demanded that all illegal settlers — Biharis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Afghans — who had entered Sindh in violation of the Pakistan (Control and Entry) Act 1950 should be repatriated to their respective countries.
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