HYDERABAD, Nov 27: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) has charged that Islamabad has bulldozed all resolutions put forward by Sindh’s elected representatives and announced that it will go ahead with its controversial water projects, by force if necessary, proposed on the River Indus.

The rulers had imposed a ‘racist’ and anti-Sindh government on the province, which since its very inception had been hatching conspiracies to divide Sindh, said STPP leaders while speaking at a news conference at the local press club.

STPP Senior Vice-Chairman Dr Abdul Hameed Memon, General Secretary Hote Khan Gadhi, Deputy General Secretary Nandlal Malhi, Hyder Shahani and Muzaffar Kalhoro said that Sindhis were stripped of their sovereignty after the government sold off Sindh’s islands and empowered the governor to dispose of precious lands of the province.

It was high time that Sindhis were reminded of sacrifices rendered by their heroes for their rights over the centuries by observing the Martyrs Day on December 2 in Karachi, they said.

They said that the party chose Karachi for observing the day because the city, which was an integral part of Sindh and where three million Sindhis were living, had become a hub of conspiracies.

They alleged that Gen Pervez Musharraf was patronising the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which was dividing districts and talukas on ethnic lines. The Sindh Assembly had adopted a bill to issue CNICs to aliens while levelling Sindhi villages to ground, they said. They alleged that Sindhi doctors and other employees serving in Karachi were being forced to leave the city.

They claimed that about 100,000 Sindhis besides PONM President Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Sindh Qaumi Ittehad Chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, Sindh PPP President Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Dr Abdul Hayee Baloch and several nationalist leaders, writers and intellectuals were expected to attend the function.

COMPLAIN AGAINST HESCO: A man from Deh Goghat in Hala taluka of Matiari district has said that he is regularly paying electricity charges of his tube-well to Hesco but line superintendent concerned has inflicted huge losses to him by suspending power supply to his farm land.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club on Sunday, Rasheed Mari said that the line superintendent was a very greedy person and he had removed the power link from the transformer.

As a result, the tube-well could not function and his meter and tube-well motors had been burnt.

He said that this was being done inspite of the fact that he was paying between Rs30,000 and Rs35,000 per month to Hesco as electricity charges.

He said that his crops had dried up and he could not cultivate wheat due to the closure of electricity for the last eight days.

He said that he had sent complaints against the line superintendent to the higher Hesco authorities, but no action had been taken against him.

He appealed to the chairman of Wapda and Hesco chief to take notice of the corrupt practices of the line superintendent and ensure power supply for his tube-well to enable him to cultivate wheat.

He said that a new meter should be installed for the operation of his tube-well.

Replying to a question, he said that he had prepared 60 acre land for wheat cultivation and that he was totally dependent on tube-well water for irrigation and drinking purposes because the canal water was not available.