No-trust vote: Sindh nationalist parties unhappy with PPP, MQM-P pact

PPP for the sake of its own interest is selling resources of Sindh to MQM-P, says QAT chief Ayaz Latif Palijo

KARACHI:

Hours after Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leadership reached written agreements, Sindhi nationalist parties on Wednesday expressed "serious concerns" over it.

Speaking to the media Ayaz Latif Palijo of the Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT) said that political parties have the right to make or break an alliance, but it should not be done at the cost of punishing the people of Sindh.

"The PPP for the sake of its own interest is selling resources of Sindh to the MQM-P and devising a plan of sharing jobs, funds and kickbacks which is not tolerable," he said, adding that in the last tenure the MQM-P, with the help of the PPP, inducted many "terrorists" in various government departments.

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"It looks like the same practice is being repeated in the name of agreement between both the parties," he said.

Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party's Dr Qadir Magsi, while rejecting the agreement to appoint MQM-P administrators in various districts of Sindh, called it a grave violation of merit.

"We reject the distribution on the basis of ethnicity. This aims to control cities and towns of Sindh by appointing MQM-P administrators having a terrorist background," Magsi said, adding that his party would start the movement against the agreement and would not allow the PPP to "hijack" Sindh at the hand of the MQM-P.

Syed Zain Shah of Sindh United Party (SUP) was of the view that Sindh is not the property of the PPP to hand over it to the MQM-P and people living in the province would come out against any nefarious design to loot and plunder the resources of the province.

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"We wonder whether the Sindh government is going to withdraw the terrorist cases lodged against MQM-P activists. It's one of the points in the agreement," Zain claimed.

Meanwhile, there was a hue and cry on social media as activists, writers and civil society members demanded of the PPP and other opposition parties make public the agreement with the MQM-P so that people should have an idea under what terms and condition the agreement was inked.