HYDERABAD: Protest against dams, island sale continues
HYDERABAD, Dec 15: The activists of Sindh National Students Federation staged a protest demonstration outside the Hyderabad press club on Friday against the sale of Sindh's properties, unemployment, demolition of Sindhi villages and anti-Sindh projects including the proposed construction of Kalabagh dam and other dams on the Indus River.
Speaking on the occasion, the central chief organiser of SNSF, Lala Qurban Sodhro, divisional coordinator of SNF Hyderabad, Wali Mohammad Jamari, Mir Mazhar Mirani, Nawab Khan Bijarani and others, said that centuries-old
Sindhis villages were being demolished and their dwellers were being rendered shelter less.
He said the islands of Sindh were being sold out to foreign companies and the people living there were being forcibly ejected from their ancestral homes. They said, on the one hand, Sindhi speaking people were being converted into a minority due to the influx of outsiders and on the other, fertile agricultural land of Sindh was being rendered barren due to construction of dams.
They said the economy of Sindh was being destroyed while university graduates were running from pillar to post for employment. They warned that the Sindhis will resist all such anti-Sindh conspiracies.
SPSF-SB: A joint meeting of Sindh People’s Students Federation and People’s Youth (S-B), Jamshoro unit, was held at the residence of Dr Rafique Bhalai on Friday which demanded immediate release of Shaheed Bhutto group leaders Nihal Ahmed Talani, Munir Ahmed Brohi, Majeed Siyal as well as leaders of other political parties.
The meeting condemned the sale of two islands of Sindh and demanded that the displaced fishermen should be rehabilitated there. They further demanded that the accused involved in the murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto should be arrested.
SUNNI TEHRIK: The activists of Sunni Tehrik here on Friday staged a protest demonstration outside the Hyderabad press club against the inordinate delay in the arrest of perpetrators of Nishtar Park carnage. They also observed a token hunger strike.
Speaking on the occasion, the ST leaders Khalid Hassan Akhtari, Mohammad Khalid Qadri, Abdul Shakoor Bhatti and others said that their protest movement throughout Sindh was going on for months but the authorities have failed to arrest the culprits of such a heinous crime.
They said that all the agencies had submitted their inquiry reports on the Nishtar Park tragedy to President General Pervez Musharraf which had not been made public due to political expediency. They said that no effort was made to arrest the murderers although they were roaming about freely. They demanded their immediate arrest.
ANIMAL DISEASES: Director Animal Husbandry Sindh, Dr Mohammad Essa Memon, has announced here on Friday that during the first three months of the new year (January to March 2007), there were apprehensions of spread of contagious diseases in animals in Sindh.
He advised the livestock owners and breeders to get their animals vaccinated at the nearest veterinary hospitals.