HYDERABAD, March 2 Europe is deliberately keeping Asians and Africans away from literacy with the aim to enslave them, says Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo.

He said in his address to the central convention of Sindhi Shagird Tahreek held at the press club here on Sunday that thousands of people had been killed in Sindh since 1988 but not a single murderer could be arrested till date.

“The so-called exponents of democracy were just smiling over the predicament of hapless people,” Palijo said.

The 1940 resolution does not mention the country to be ruled through Sharia Laws and Mullahs to become sovereigns of the state he said while reminding that some 2.5 million acres of Sindh's land was doled out to outsiders soon after the creation of Pakistan.

Mr. Palijo alleged that Sindhi students were being kept away from Karachi University under a conspiracy while no such thing existed in Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar. He said that the owners of Sindh were aliens in their own land. He called upon the Sindhi students to foil all conspiracies through the power of knowledge and education.

The National Workers Party leader, Yousuf Masti Khan said that the people of Sindh love to acquire education and no conspiracies can hold them back from seeking it.

He stressed the need for launching a consistent and collective struggle against the enemies of education.

A young writer, Ahmed Mushtaq said that the government always convened APCs on different issues but never on the most important issue of education.

The Karachi University was in the control of Rangers for the last 15 years but the government had not taken the notice, Mushtaq said and added that the government had publicly admitted that 7,000 schools in Sindh were lying closed but failed to issue a list.

Usman Baloch said that the situation would not improve in near future but vowed that the people of Sindh would snatch their rights.

The newly elected President of Sindhi Shagird Tahreek, Ayaz Chandio, Choudhry Irfan, Ikramullah, Nazeer Memon and others also spoke on the occasion.

The convention adopted several resolutions demanding an end to copy culture in all educational institutions, elimination of extortion and terrorism from the Mehran and Liaquat Universities and other educational institutions.

It further demanded that students averse to education and involved in blackmailing and boycott of classes should be rusticated and ban on employment of Sindhi people in multinational companies in Karachi should be lifted.

The convention called on making Sindhi language compulsory in all private educational institutions up to class-XII and replacing the outdated syllabus with a modern and scientific one.

It demanded dismissal of teachers, professors and lecturers appointed on political basis.