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Sindhis continue to suffer under PPP govt: SANA
NEW YORK - The Sindhi Association of North America (SANA) says that the suffering of the Sindhi people had continued under the PPP government they had elected in the hope that their plight would improve.
In a resolution adopted at the just-ended 25th annual convention in Saint Louis, Missouri, SANA accused PPP of surrendering to the black mail of MQM, which, it said, dominated the provincial government and was diverting development funds to large cities or withholding them.
It said that Sindhis continue to feel helpless at the inability of the elected PPP government to fulfill the promises that the party made to their constituencies. The SANA demanded that the coalition government in Sindh should achieve a balance by bringing an end to continued discriminatory practices and ensuring equitable share of Sindhis in educational and economic opportunities.
It urged that both federal and Sindh provincial governments should initiate affirmative action programmes to alleviate the plight of poverty-stricken in rural Sindh and massively increase educational opportunities there. In another resolution, SANA called upon the PPP and Sindhi nationalist parties to begin a dialogue on a joint strategy for alleviating problems faced by Sindhis and bring welfare to rural population.
As the amalgamation and bifurcation of old districts in the cities of Hyderabad and Karachi have failed to live up to the promise of progress, SANA demanded that old district structure in the cities of Hyderabad and Karachi be restored.
The SANA called for autonomy and sovereignty for the provinces according to the 1940 Resolution with only the subjects of defence, telecommunications, currency, foreign affairs and inter-provincial coordination to stay with the federal government. It said the provinces should be given ownership of the oil, gas, mineral and other resources and the Senate should be made more powerful giving it authority to initiate money bills and approve key federal appointments, including high court judges and chiefs of the armed forces.
The Nation:July 10, 2009
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