LARKANA, Oct 2: Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto has announced its plan to take out a procession from the mazar of Z.A. Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto to the mosuluem of the Quaid-i-Azam on Oct 10 in protest against passage of the SPLGO-2012 in the Sindh Assembly. Addressing a hurriedly-called press conference here at Al-Murtaza House, chairperson of the PPP-SB Ghinwa Bhutto said she would lead the protest.

Earlier, a meeting of the party provincial committee was held under the chairmanship of Sardar Taj Muhammed Domki at Al-Murtaza House where she participated on special invitation. It endorsed the protest call for Oct 10.

Describing the ordinance as administrative division of Sindh, she said the urban-rural divide would lead to bloodshed and passing of the ordinance in haste talked of the ill-intentions of the PPP.  She said the ordinance, which was crucial issue for Sindh, had been passed in the provincial assembly in seven minutes and a debate on creating Seraki province was still going on.

She expressed doubts that certain ‘strange’ elements had drafted the ordinance and a debate over it might expose many secrets.

She said the ordinance had roots in the British Raj which was aimed at developing capitalist market.

Saluting the martyrdom of a worker in Nawabshah, she said the PPP-SB would contact all nationalists and other political parties which were opposing the SPLGO-2012. She said: “United we stand, divided we fall. So the need of the hour is to unite to defeat the ordinance.”

She said catching words did not mean the fairness of system (pro-people system) and appealed to people to participate in the protest. In reply to a question, she said passage of the ordinance would further what she called political polarization in Sindh.

Answering a question about the meeting of Asif Zardari with Altaf Hussain in London, she said its ‘normal’, but hastily added: “Birds of a feather fly together.”

Leaders of the PPP-SB who attended the press conference included Inayat Hussain and Dr Sikandar Jatoi.