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HYDERABAD, July 31: The Pakistan People’s Party, Tando Mohammad Khan chapter, has appealed to the chief justice of the Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of the dismissal of 11 Sindhi officials from the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department.
Speaking at a news conference at the Hyderabad Press Club on Monday, PPP district president Haji Mohammad Amin Lakho said that the Sindhi officers’ dismissal was a stark example of discrimination and victimisation of a particular ethnic group.
The department recently sacked three Sindhi ETOs, one AETO and seven inspectors without assigning any specific reason, he said, and alleged that the move was aimed at making room for accommodating people from a single ethnic group.
Mr Lakho said that the PPP would resist the move and appealed to the chief justice to appoint a committee to probe into the issue and restore justice.
He also called upon human rights organisations to play their role in ensuring justice to Sindhi officers.
Party activists, Irshad Ali Memon, Mohammad Ali Notkani and Abdul Aziz Bhatti were also present at the press conference.
SCA: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) expressed its resentment at a meeting held on Sunday over the irrigation department’s continued water rotation programme and demanded that the government ensure water supply to growers to save their crops.
SCA President Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah said that despite the fact that the rivers were flooding with water the corrupt irrigation officials had continued with the rotation programme.
He said that the provincial government was sleeping over a federal government package of installing 600 tube-wells in Sindh after receiving first instalments from the landlords.
The meeting condemned the sale of spurious pesticides and fertilizers specially zinc sulphate and observed that the fake products had damaged 80 per cent rice crop in the province.
The meeting accused the inspectors of irrigation department of corruption and demanded the secretary agriculture initiate inquiries against them.
STPP: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) has condemned registration of fake criminal cases against the leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Mr Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, STPP chairman Dr Qadir Magsi and other nationalist leaders.
In a statement issued here on Monday, senior vice-chairman of STPP Dr Abdul Hameed Memon and General Secretary Hote Khan Gadhi alleged that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was behind the fake cases.
They pledged to continue their struggle to save the cities of Sindh and said that the nationalist parties’ rally in Hyderabad on Saturday was completely peaceful.
Although thousands of people had participated in the rally but none of the participants disturbed peace. People who had hurled stones at the shops were government’s own men who tried to instigate violence, they alleged.
They blamed the MQM for trying once again to foment ethnic riots by raising the issued of city government.
