Black Day: ANP Sindh, PML-F to join Nationalist parties in strike

Nationalist parties along with PML-F and ANP to observe November 30, day of PPP's foundation, as black day.


Web Desk November 28, 2012

KARACHI: Nationalist parties got a boost on Wednesday when the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) announced their support for observing November 30 as black day in Sindh as protest against the Sindh Peoples Local Government Act 2012, Express News reported.

Awami National Party Sindh chief Senator Shahi Syed urged his party workers and supporters to stay away from their jobs, from opening businesses as part of the black day strike on November 30. He added that workers should protest non-violently.

Meanwhile, the general secretary of PML-F Imtiaz Shaikh said that they will not talk to the government till the controversial law is withdrawn.

“We will never shut the door on talks, but this is an issue on which everyone in Sindh is worried,” he told media in a press conference.

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will celebrate November 30 as the day it turns 46 years old. Information minister Sharjeel Memon had said that the PPP will celebrate its foundation day across Sindh on that day.

COMMENTS (11)

Syed | 11 years ago | Reply

@ Ammar, The law and order situation has got nothing to do with LG, Law and Order has always been the subject of Home Ministry and Home ministry alone is responsible for this. Not City govt, and not the mayor. get some perspective. "Concurrent events are not always correlated !!" otherwise I could just say I got married when LG was in place, that doesnt mean my marriage and LG is something correlated.

Syed | 11 years ago | Reply

@sick of this nonsense, agreed thats the ideal scenario, but that formula didnt work out, after 4 years of consultations. The main purpose of local govt is govt at your door step, and the way nationalist want Hyderabad disctrict is such that people would have to travel from one city to another more than 1-2 hour rides, just to get minor services of the govt. Yes we all are same, but none of these nationalist said this when the sindh rural and urban qouta was imposed alienation sindh urban from govt jobs and dividing sindh into two by the way there also point the LGO that any other city which wants lg can be granted one. how much more flexibility you want ??

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