Nationalists urge Sindh govt to bury the new LG ordinance
According to the chairperson of the Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STPP), Dr Qadir Magsi, they planned to stage sit-ins every Wednesday till the ordinance is ‘buried’.
Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Functional), Awami Tehreek (AT), Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), Sindh National Movement and Awami Jamhoori Party met at the Hyderabad Bypass for a four-hour long sit-in. Protesters blocked the National and Indus Highways in Matiari, Shaheed Benazirabad and Sehwan. They also carried placards and burnt tyres in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas.
“There will be bloodshed if the Sindh Assembly votes in favour of the ordinance,” said Magsi. “The Sindhis are prepared to bleed to save their province from being divided. The ordinance is a conspiracy to divide Sindh.” JSQM’s Aakash Mallah chanted a slogan made famous by Hosh Muhammad Sheedi, a military general from the Talpur dynasty who died fighting the British in 1843, “we will die, but we will not give you Sindh.”
In Sukkur
Workers of Sindh United Party, STTP, JSQM, Jeay Sindh Tehreek and other nationalists blocked the National Highway and major roads leading into cities. The Shah Hussain Bypass near Khairpur and Kandhkot was also blocked. In Daharki, hundreds of nationalists and workers of the PML-N carried placards and chanted slogans against the government. They were led by STPP’s Jam Fatah, PML-N’s Hafiz Mohammad Sadiq Samejo and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz’s Dr Niaz Kalani. The protesters burnt tyres and blocked the traffic flow for three hours.
Jam Fatah and Dr Kalani said that the government had betrayed Sindh and the new local government ordinance was a conspiracy to divide Sindh. They added that the government was only interested in negotiating with one of their coalition partners and were ignoring the rest.
“This oridnance is an attempt to harm the integrity and solidarity of Sindh,” they said. “The people of Sindh are against it. We will not let them go ahead with this. The unity of our motherland is at stake.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2012.
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couldnt agree more with shah and karachiwala.
@ hoshu, this is what democracy is? talking about bloddsheds and refusing to agree to the ordinances passed by the major political parties and refusing to accept it even if an elected assembly passes it. How many seats do all the nationalists have even if you combine all these parties. What mandate do these non entities have? This is not democracy, this is dictatorship, ghunda gardee and anarchy
@Shah...labellling them as cry-babies is incorrect because obviously you know nothing of how democracy works....protest is the way to get your elected representative to action...you better pray that they keep protesting...there's no 'if' people are with them...obviously people are with them and that's why the protests are successful, as you saw over a million people protest for independence of Sindh, and as a result Paleetistan poisoned and killed Shaheed Bashir Khan Qureshi
@Karachiwaro...you have correctly named mqm as terrorists, but ppp are not angels...in order for your scenario to happen, there would need to be free and fair elections, which you should know will not happen, as per the racist/invalid census...by the way Sindh is spelled with an 'h' at the end you ignorant refugee
Marsoon Marsoon, Sindh Na Dasoon!!!
while shah has saved alot of my words, but i have to add something. If they claim that the local bodies system will benefit mqm, then with same token it will benefit them too. The system would have budget to each city. Karachi would gets its share, and dadu /badin would get thiers. If you have MQM (terrorist) Mayor in Karachi, then you will have ppp/JSQM etc (Angels) mayor in dadu/badin/jacob/mirpur/ all the tandoos. They would have an ideal situation where they can make all the sind as HEAVENLY as possible...so later..people of Karachi will rescind MQM and vote for JSQM/ppp. how about that.... and till then i expect all of you to help your neighbour in need from floods..
Why don't these parties join together to contest elections. If the people are with them, they will be able to get a lot of seats and then be able to legislate as they please. Acting like cry babies is not going to help further their cause.