Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairperson Syed Mustafa Kamal has called for holding a jirga of elders and political leaders in the Muhajir community, to settle the divisive controversy of carving out a new province within Sindh once and for all.
"Let's hold a jirga like our Pakhtun brothers do and decide which path will be better for Muhajirs," he said while addressing supporters in Hyderabad on Friday evening. "If the elders say my path [of keeping Sindh united] is wrong, I will close my chapter of politics forever."
He maintained that if the political leaders who received votes in the name of Muhajirs were actually concerned about the community, they should meet in a jirga and decide the future discourse.
"They should shun the politics of dead bodies, which also threatens Muhajirs from Karachi to Kashmore," he said.
Kamal also tacitly criticised the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) for enjoying power in the local government system for four years, but failing to deliver services to the people. "And now they are again tricking the people by crying out for a new province," he added.
He claimed that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) too was a beneficiary of the slogan for a separate province in Sindh. "The MQM-P raises this slogan to hide its corruption, and both the PPP and the MQM-P are engaged in a fake fight," he asserted. "But any political demand that hurts the sentiments of the Sindhi people is not acceptable."
The PSP leader blamed the PPP for destroying both rural and urban parts of Sindh during its continued governance in the province for over 12 years. "The PPP has turned Karachi and Hyderabad into undeveloped cities such as Larkana and Jacobabad," he stated, expressing the hope that the people of urban and rural Sindh would soon unite against the exploitative politics that prevailed in the province.
"The PSP won't let any political party instigate a clash between Sindhis and Muhajirs for their political interests," he asserted.
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