Militant group of Sindhi nationalists calls for armed struggle

From slums of Karachi, Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA) has started making its presence in urban part of the province, it is learnt.
SDLA, a militant group of Sindhi nationalists, has started promotional campaign for Sindh as ‘separate state.’ The members of the SDLA have started attracting the Sindhi speakers, residing in the metropolis, for armed struggle for a separate state. SDLA has targeted Sindhi dominated areas in the metropolitan. Representatives of SDLA have made their presence in Ayub Goth, Sachal Goth, Shah Latif Town, Bin Qasim Town and slums of Super Highway to deliver their message of armed struggle for cause of a separate state for Sindhis in Pakistan. Earlier, SDLA launched a series of blasts at railway tracks, state-run National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and recently attack on a passenger bus near Qazi Ahmed in which 13 passengers lost their lives. Few days back, some unidentified persons started wall-chalking at the above mentioned areas of the metropolis. Some posters of SDLA were also seen in these areas along with the road side. In their message to the Sindhi speakers, SDLA claimed that the Urdu-speakers in Sindh were trying to establish a separate province in Urdu-speaking dominated areas which may result into destruction of Sindh. They are trying to convince new comers that Sindhis too should start an armed struggle for Sindh as an independent state like Balochistan. They are trying to draw attention to the discrimination being meted out by the central government. Taking the Balochs as their role model, the SDLA has lauded their efforts in getting world’s recognition and tried to convince Sindhis, who, according to them, have been deprived of their rights by centre for decades. SDLA representative told the citizens of Sindhi dominated areas of the city that SDLA would launch an armed struggle like Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) for making Sindh an independent state. They claimed that the centre was exploiting the natural resources of Sindh against a very low royalty to facilitate Punjab. They termed political parties of the Sindh particularly the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) as ‘opportunists’, and blamed that the political parties were using the Sindh card for attaining power. They tried to convince nationalists that Sindh was rich in natural resources but despite the fact Sindh was the country’s most poor province. Making above mentioned points as cause of the movement, they requested Sindhi speaking citizens of the metropolis to join SDLA to get their rights.