Feudals preventing LG polls, creation of administrative units: Altaf

MQM chief says control of Sindh should be given to MQM for 10 years

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain on Tuesday lashed out at the feudal lords of Sindh, claiming that they were preventing local government elections from being held in the provinces nor were they allowing the creation of administrative units. He added that control of Sindh should be handed to his party for 10 years, Express News reported.

Addressing the General Workers Convention at Jinnah ground via telephone on Tuesday, Altaf said MQM workers and leaders will live and die for Sindh and will protect the rights of Sindh together

“Give us control of Sindh for ten years and we will get lands occupied by feudal land owners of the country back,” said Altaf. “Muhajirs are accused of infringing the rights of Sindhis, but we all belong to the land of Sindh and we have always been the inheritors of Sindh.”

"We are obliged to pay our dues to Sindh."

Altaf said that in Sindh, women die during child birth due to lack of proper medical facilities in the interior of the province. If farmers send their daughters to school, sons of land owners abduct them.

“Feudal landlords do not let local government elections happen in Sindh,” said Altaf. “They also do not let administrative units to be formed because administrative units will make feudal and land owners weak.”

“At the time of partition, Sindh was owned by the Hindu feudal landlords,” said Altaf, “when the Hindus left, their land grabbed Sindh, they are still occupying around 10,000 acres land to date. The families of these enslaved feudal landlords have been ruling Pakistan ever since.”

“Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has won from interior Sindh, they should have made schools and roads. If we are given education government we will make 400 schools in Sindh.”