HYDERABAD, March 22 Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that Sindh's control over its resources still remains a distant dream and investigators should look for Benazir Bhutto's murderers in the ranks of PPP.

Addressing a rally near Wadhu Wah on Saturday evening marking the founding day of the STP, referred to as Motherland Day by the party, Dr Magsi urged people to vote for STP instead of feudal lords who had given them nothing and compromised their sovereignty.

“We are still far away from our dream but we have a yearning that the day will come when on a similar Motherland Day we'll be celebrating our victory from Karachi to Kashmore regarding control over our resources,” declared Dr Magsi as the venue reverberated with sound of gunfire, and he had to ask his workers to stop firing.

He said that politics in Sindh had turned into a farce and those in the forefront of struggle for rights had been criticised for their failure to achieve sovereignty. “It's not that we haven't sacrificed. Our youth have marks of lashes on their backs. Still we feel that we have gone off the track,” he said.

G.M. Syed, Comrade Hyder Bux Jatoi, Rasool Bux Palijo or he himself could not be held responsible for it but “feudalism should be held responsible as it has killed our hopes and I ask everyone to ponder over these issues seriously”, he said.

Today Sindhis had been reduced to aliens in Karachi and Hyderabad and as a nation they were on the brink of destruction, he said.

Despite his forewarnings that Feb 18 elections would not turn things around, people vented their anger by voting for PPP in hope “the party will bring Benazir Bhutto's murderers to justice and heal their wounds.”

He was particularly harsh on Senator-elect Rehman Malik for his failure to save Benazir Bhutto as her chief security officer. “He has never been a political activist but he has been made interior adviser. Will the man who couldn't save his leader be able to save the country? Can there be any bigger joke than this?” he asked.

He attacked Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza for using harsh language against STP and said that he had failed to save PPP's workers and arrest the people responsible for Oct 18, 2007 carnage.

He said that Benazir Bhutto's murderers should also be found in the “ranks of PPP” because those who abet murder were also considered killers.

He demanded removal of governor of Sindh and asked Sindhis not to believe in Altaf Hussain as MQM and its workers would keep depriving them of their rights.

He took a pledge from the crowd that they would resist if MQM tried to grab Sindh chief minister's post or made moves towards creating Jinnahpur between Karachi and Tharparkar.

National Party chief Dr. Abdul Hayee Baloch put up a strong defence of Balochistan and said that people of this province had learnt lessons from Sindhis.

He called for a new social contract between oppressed nations and federation and suggested a powerful Election Commission formed in consultation with oppressed nations. “This contract should empower all oppressed nations to have sovereignty over their natural and mineral resources,” Baloch stressed.

He said that people's pressure led to restoration of Nov 2, 2007 judiciary and believed if people were united then a similar street power could do away with master-slave relation in the country.

He said that independence of judiciary was linked to sovereignty of parliament whose sovereignty was directly linked to rights of oppressed nations.

He said that Sindhis were being converted into a minority by settling 'outsiders' in Sindh. “We are also faced with a similar situation in Balochistan where army and land mafia are occupying land especially in coastal belt in the name of Gwadar mega development project, naval air base and cantonment,” he alleged.

Former senator Habib Jalib of BNP-M said that he felt that present conditions had shaken up everyone. “We can sacrifice our lives if anyone try to tamper with our history,” he said and criticised Pakistan's foreign policy which seemed to be heading for confrontation with Afghanistan and India.

The gathering adopted several resolutions, demanding election of a legislative assembly for drafting parity-based new constitutions acceptable to all nations, implementation of Charter of Democracy and ending role of army and its intelligence agencies in politics.