Sindh is ours: Writers want displaced persons to be kept away from Sindh

Writers’ organisation demands that the govt tackles the threat of terrorism.

KARACHI: The Sindh Writers and Thinkers Forum (SWTF) has asked the federal and provincial governments to ban the arrival of internally displaced persons (IDP), appealing to the residents of Sindh to come forward and play a crucial role.

Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday, Jami Chandio said that the extremists plaguing the country were raised in Afghanistan to fight against the Russian forces and are still being patronised to destabilise the peace and tranquility of the Subcontinent.

“Neither the Pakistan Peoples Party nor the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has ever taken any serious action against extremism,” claimed Chandio. He said that IDPs from tribal areas and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa were coming to different areas of Sindh - worsening the province’s law and order situation and its economy.

Chandio was accompanied by Noor Ahmed Memon, Muzaffar Chandio, Dastgheer Bhatti and Aijaz Qureshi among others. Referring to the statement of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the SWTF leaders said that if the presence of Taliban in Islamabad is a danger, then the situation in Sindh is far more serious.

They demanded that the Sindh government immediately register all IDPs and set up separate camps for them, from where they should be sent back after a while.

The SWTF will arrange a conference on rising terrorism in Sindh on March 15.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 28^th, 2014.