Sindh United Party (SUP) chief Jalal Mehmood Shah said during a press conference at Hyder Manzil on Thursday that nationalist parties will stage demonstrations across the province on November 10 and will observe a hunger strike in front of the Karachi Press Club on November 13. They also plan to hold a “long march” after Ashura. “We hope to mobilise people by these activities,” said Shah.
The SUP chief had earlier presided over a meeting of the Save Sindh Committee (Sindh Bachayo Committee), which was attended by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional MPA Nusrat Shehar Abbasi, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Saleem Zia, National Peoples Party’s (NPP) Masror Jatoi, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Sanan Qureshi, Jeay Sindh Tehreek chief Dr Safdar Sarki and other nationalists.
Shah said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had promulgated the new local government ordinance “to appease a coalition partner”. He also warned the PPP that the people of Sindh are protesting against it in “every nook and corner of the province” and that it will have to suffer a “historic” electoral defeat if elections are held in a free and fair manner.
PS-21 by-election
Jalal Mehmood Shah said that nationalist parties have decided to support the NPP candidate for by-election on the PS-21 seat in Naushero Feroze. The election is scheduled for November 16, and the ruling PPP is fielding its own candidate. “I assure the people that the PPP, even after using government machinery, cannot win this election,” said Shah.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2012.
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