STP terms census conspiracy against Sindh
Sindh Taraqqipasand Party (STP) Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has raised the red flag against the upcoming digital population census, saying that Sindhis are being turned into a minority in their own province through a conspiracy.
Addressing party supporters at the annual “motherland day” rally on Hatri Bypass Road, Hyderabad, late on Friday, Magsi voiced fears that the census was meant to pave the way for the creation of a separate province for the Mohajir community.
“Sindh is not a group of some 200,000 or 400,000 people but it is the motherland of tens of millions of Sindhis,” he said while accusing PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari of giving in to the wishes of foreign powers to allow the division of Sindh along ethnic lines. He added that Zardari wanted to install his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as the next prime minister against this deal.
Magsi argued that a new social contract in Pakistan had become indispensable, saying it was necessary to keep in view the bitter past realities before making that contract.
“The rulers will have to apologise to the people whose rights were usurped in the past,” he demanded.
“For that new social contract, there is a need to talk to the true representatives of Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab and not just to get Asif Zardari and Imran Khan on board.”
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2023.