Activists of political parties, which were components of Sindh Action Committee, took out rallies in several Sindh towns on Saturday as part of their ongoing protest against promulgation of presidential ordinance on islands and demanded immediate withdrawal of the ordinance.
In Hyderabad, Sindh United Party (STP) secretary general Roshan Buriro, who led a rally, said that if Pakistan Peoples Party’s Sindh government had not issued a no-objection certificate the federal government would not have the temerity to issue this ordinance.
Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) leader Dr Niaz Kalani said that Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari did not utter even a word on islands’ issue in Gujranwala public meeting where it mattered.
Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party’s (STP) Hoat Khan Gadhi said that PPP despite being largest parliamentary group in Sindh Assembly and ruling party was still making useless noises. PPP had not even been able to table a resolution in Sindh Assembly on this burning issue, he said.
Awami Tehreek leader Dawood Dahiri and PML-N’s Qamarzaman Rajput said that people of Sindh would not allow handover of their land to “outsiders” and announced struggle would be launched for protecting natural resources of Sindh.
SUKKUR: A protest was staged under the aegis of Sindh Action Committee outside local press club against the presidential ordinance.
The protesters’ leaders said the federal government wanted to occupy islands of Sindh and Balochistan through the “illegal” ordinance but people would never hand over their land to the centre.
In Jacobabad, activists of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, STP, PPP-Shaheed Bhutto, National Party (NP) and others took out a rally and held a sit-in.
The rally reached the press club after passing through different roads where participants held a sit-in and leaders made speeches.
The leaders said they would bury the ordinance like they had done with the issue of Kalabagh dam and demanded its immediate withdrawal.
DADU: A large number of activists of various parties and civil society took out a protest rally which began from Allama I.I. Qazi Library and terminated at local press club.
The protesters’ leaders demanded the federal government withdraw the ordinance and abolish Pakistan Islands Development Authority. If the ordinance was not abrogated, they would continue their protest, they warned.
STP president and convenor of the committee Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah told journalists in Jamshoro that federal government had no ethical and legal right to “occupy” the islands. Meanwhile, a big rally was taken out from Mehar to Dadu.
MITHI: Workers of several parties staged a demonstration against the presidential ordinance on islands.
The protesters’ leaders said people of Sindh would never allow anybody to occupy their land and sea. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government’s act was tantamount to committing “robbery” on islands and other resources of Sindh, they said.
They vowed to resist all attempts to grab their islands and cont
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