LARKANA: Sindh National Movement (SNM) chairman Aijaz Ahmed Samtio, condemning the government for allegedly dismantling old Sindhi villages to dish out the retrieved lands to builders, has called for a united action against such actions.

Addressing a press conference at the local press club on Sunday, he said that under a conspiracy, outsiders were being settled in Karachi and Zulfikarabad was being established for them. He termed the project an attempt to transform Sindhis into a minority within their homeland.

“We are against division of Sindh and looting of its natural resources,” he said and accused the PPP government of having adopted an anti-Sindh stand.

Sindhis were deprived of admission to Karachi’s educational institutions; the Sindhis serving in the water board were being threatened with dire consequences; and Sindhi officers serving in the Sindh Secretariat were being harassed, he said.

Mr Samtio alleged that state institutions were strengthening the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to facilitate such injustices and anti-Sindh actions.

He condemned the ‘enforced disappearance’ and ‘brutal killing’ of nationalist activists whose disfigured bodies were found dumped at different places.

He said Sarwaich Pirzado and Roshan Brohi were kidnapped and killed. Several other activists were also picked up from different parts of Sindh and later their mutilated bodies were found dumped in different areas, he added. SNP senior vice chairman Jamal Khan Mugheri, vice chairman Aziz Phull and Ghulam Mustafa were also present at the press conference.

Published in Dawn, December 29th, 2014