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Magsi urges govt to expel ‘post-1954 settlers’
By Qurban Ali Khushik
DADU: Dr Qadir Magsi, the chief of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, has called upon the government to send back to their native places all those people who had settled in Sindh after 1954.
‘And I advise all those who came to the province before 1954 to learn Sindhi language,’ he said in a speech at a rally outside the shrine of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar on Tuesday.
Dr Magsi heaped scorn on feudals and PPP ministers ‘sitting in government thanks to the poor man’s vote, but who have now forgotten that they are answerable to the masses’.
The STP chairman took multinational corporations to task for recruiting people from other provinces while ignoring the youth from Sindh.
Dr Magsi lamented that Sindh was being robbed of its resources under an
‘elaborate conspiracy’.
He said a host of problems like law and order and shortage of irrigation water were crying for attention, but ‘our elected representatives have no time to attend to them’.
Sindh was ‘contributing Rs 2 trillion to the national kitty annually’, but the federal government had never bothered to earmark even 10 per cent of the money for the province, Dr Magsi bemoaned.
He appealed to those Sindhis who had set up MQM units to join nationalist parties.
Among other speakers were Haider Shahani, Haider Mallah and Roshan Burioro
DAWN: Wednesday, 22 Jul, 2009
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