The Awami National Party (ANP) on Tuesday rejected the government’s decision to divide Sindh into two administrative units, as the province’s nationalist parties gave another strike call against the government’s “anti-Sindh” policies.
The strike call came as another 10 people were gunned down in various incidents of targeted killings and violence in the country’s financial capital. The city police carried out search operations in various localities of the city and arrested 50 people on suspicion of being involved in violence.
A nationalists’ delegation called on ANP Sindh President and Pakhtun Action Committee (Loya Jirga) Chairman Shahi Syed at the Mardan House to thank the ANP for taking a principled stand on the division of two districts – Karachi and Hyderabad – on administrative grounds.
Syed told the delegation that the division of Sindh would not be tolerated at any cost and his party would foil any such conspiracy. He assured the delegation that the ANP would not accept the division of Sindh at any cost.
Meanwhile, the leaders and representatives of various nationalist parties gathered in Karachi threatened to besiege the Sindh Assembly building whenever the PPP convened its session and tried to legislate on re-implementation of the Sindh Local Government System 2001.
Sindh United Party leader Jalal Mahmood Shah had convened a meeting of the nationalist parties at Hyder Manzil. Leaders and representatives of almost all major nationalist parties of the province, except Rasool Bux Palijo’s Awami Tahreek, attended the meeting.
A committee by the name of Save Sindh Committee, comprising leaders of various parties was also formed.
Briefing reporters after the meeting Shah said the nationalist parties’ leadership had demanded the PPP apologise to the people of Sindh for its anti-Sindh actions. They also demanded the government revoke its decision of restoring the SLGO 2001, and give legal cover to the Sindh Assembly’s legislation regarding the revival of the Commissioner-ate System in the province.
