HYDERABAD: STPP plans struggle for Sindh’s rights
HYDERABAD, April 14: The Sindh Taraqi Passand Party on Friday released the political report adopted by the recent congress of the party.
The chairman of the party, Dr Qadir Magsi presented the report.
It said that the Sindhi nation was being treated as a subjugated nation and its political, economic, social and cultural rights had been usurped.
It said that it was necessary for the Sindhi nation to work for its independence, prosperity and national pride.
It referred to innumerable problems confronting the Sindhi nation including the NFC award, rehabilitation of outsiders, usurpation of natural resources and water and the issue of sovereignty, Sindhi language, education, health, unemployment and price hike.
It stressed the need for training the Sindhi nation to wage a protracted struggle against the enemies of Sindh.
The report claimed that Pakistan was struggling for its identity and all its industries and financial institutions were being handed over to the multinational companies.
It alleged that in order to further American political interests under the garb of war against terrorism, the people of Pakistan were being used as cannon-fodder.
It said that the way people in Waziristan, Bajaur Agency and other tribal areas were being killed, had no parallel in the history of the world.
It said that the Pakistan army in order to maintain its stranglehold on the country for all times to come and to convert the entire country into a colony of Punjab, had launched an operation against the other nations.
The report alleged that 4,000 political activists in Balochistan were being held incommunicado and the Baloch people were being.
It said that the Taraqi Passand Party as an ally of PONM fully supported the resistance movement of the Baloch people.
It took strong exception to the rehabilitation of non-Baloch in Gawadar and alleged that it was an attempt to convert the Baloch nation into a minority.
It pointed out that under the same strategy, the Sindhis had been converted into a minority in Karachi.
It accused the Musharraf government of trying to take over control of the Indus waters through the proposed construction of five dams including the Kalabagh dam.
It said that people from other provinces and tens of thousands of people from South Asia were being rehabilitated in Sindh and added that the influx of Indians through the Khokhropar route would prove to be disastrous for Sindh.
It pointed out that 40 per cent of the Sindh Assembly members were non-Sindhis and same was the case in the National Assembly and the Senate.
It urged the Sindhi nation to study the obtaining political situation in its true perspective and evolve a new strategy for its struggle.