21 months of PPP Government - No Releif for sindhis

(Zaheer Jamali, Dadu)

For the last 21 months Pakistan Peoples Party (PPPP) has been in Power with full representation and control in all corridors of POWER. They have their president, prime minister, favorite chief of army staff, Chief Justice of SC, CMs, Chairman in Senate, Governors of choic and overwhelming majority in NA.

People of Sindh who have been voting for PPP & great Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Sahiba unanimously for the last 38 years and have costed 90% of their votes to PPP candidates on 18th February 2008, now they ask what will they get in return? It is time to speak up and let our views be known to the government of PPP and to worthy Mr Asif Ali Zardari, Mr. Bialwal Bhutto Zardari, Yousif Raza Gilani, Qaim Ali Shah, Rehman Malik, Fahmeeda Mirza, Naveed Qamar, Agha Siraj Durani, Khursheed Shah, Zulfiqar Mirza, Peer Mazhar ul Haq, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Farook Naik, Murad Ali Shah & all others federal and provincial Ministers. Please Raise your voice and tell them that the 40 million people of Sindh are still waiting for some relief. We have noted that one year has passed but:

1. No mega Project in Thar, Gorakh, Daharki, Khipro, Nooriabad, Keti Bander, Matli or Shikarpur has been announced. Sindh / Thar Coal Authority has not yet been returned back to Sindh Government & project has not been launched formally.

2. DOW Medical College rejected the orders of CM for admissions of Sindhis & no action has been taken against them & Sindhi student are not being allowed to study in DMC, KU and NED
Karachi.

3. No administrative action has been taken so far by Board of Revenue to regularize Sindhi villages of Karachi, Hyderabad & Sukkur. Goth Abad Act-1987 has not been implemented. No plan to shift and establish low-cost residential areas for rural Sindhis in their own capital Karachi has been materialized .

4. 5000 illegally employed MQM workers of Water Board & 18000 terrorists working in Community Police of Karachi have not been sacked yet. Thousands of MQM Doctors appointed by former govt without any merit have not been terminated.

5. No formal enquiry conducted and action taken to punish the criminals & terrorists involved in massacres of 12th may & 18th oct 2007 & 9th April 2008. 5200 Cases withdrawn against terrorists of MQM in past and 4800 cases withdrawn under NRO in April 2008 (under PPP govt) have not been re-opened and pursued yet.

6. Work on Thal canal is still continuing, no action taken to stop it. The theft of Sindh's water is continuing unabated & illegal flow in CJ & TP link canals is causing drought and water famine in Sindh.

7. Every week the Federal Minster of Power & CM Sindh are issuing contradictory statements and no formal resolution has been brought in NA to shelve-off the Kalabagh Dam permanently.

8. Dictator Musharraf violated the Constitution, compromised sovereignty of the country, destroyed institutions, waged war on own people, murdered political leaders and innocent citizens, caused disharmony among provinces, created divisions among the people and ruined the economy but he has been given safe passage and indemnity & no action has been taken against him and his Q-league-MQM-Functional-League Team so far.

9. No measures have been taken to stop hunger & suicides in Sindh. People in villages can not afford to buy flour, rice, gas, electricity, medicines & petrol. Everyday dozens are committing suicides and women are selling their beloved kids. Share of entire Sindh's electricity is given to Karachi and 4 to 8 hours load shedding in Sindh has not been stopped yet.

10. Non-Sindhi terrorist Governor Ishrat ul Ibad, Chief Secretary & IG of Sindh & Dummy Chief Justice Dogar all are still in offices & not removed yet and PPP has agreed on expanding the power sharing in province and federal government level with MQM. Half of the ministries in Sindh have been given to them & Urdu speaking unelected PPP leaders. A Political Party that represents less than 5% of population in country is having more than 27% power share at federal level & 45% in Sindh. Non-Sindhi Federal Law Minster and Information Ministers are appointed as representatives of Sindh. Tenure of Local govt was supposed to end in beginning of this yea but for the want of MQM it is still continuing and MQM has been given the ministry of Ports & Shipping so that they can bring weapons through port.

11. Corruption is at new heights in Sindh, Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan. In Sindh MQM & PPP ministers of health, education, excise & taxation, forest, communication, fisheries, culture irrigation, revenue, local govt, food etc & in federation WAPDA, Finance, Defense ministries have broken all past records of corruption and bribery. Ministers are openly negotiating 1 to 5 million bribes for lucrative transfers & postings and General, Brigadiers, Colonels & Majors are freely getting, forest, highway and riverrine lands, permits, plots and contracts through ministers

12. There is no foreign policy at all, on one hand Nawaz Shareef, Imran Khan and Jamait Islami are playing in the hands of jihadee extremists and on the other hand PPP, MQM, ANP & JUI have mortgaged the national sovereignty with NATO countries.

13. Thousands of Sindhis affected in Larkana-Dadoo rains and floods & cyclone in Badin and Thatta are still shelter less, without food and medical help. Fishermen and framers are still homeless, jobless, foodless and their children are without food, education and medicines.

14. Division of District Hyderabad has not been annulled, Maleer, Hyderabad and Lyari Districts have not been restored, terrorist Dist Nazims Sayed Mustafa Kamal and Kunwar Naveed Jameel are enjoying more powers than ordinary PPP ministers, MNAs and MPAs.

15. Abuses to women, minorities, children, harees and weaker sections of the society are continuing & no administrative or legislative action has been taken yet. Jirgas, SANG CHATEES, CHAR BHETA, BADO, Karo Kari are being supported by Sindhi Waderas of PPP, PML-N, PML-Q and Functional League unanimously.

16. Stock market has crashed, electricity, gas, diesel, kerosene and CNG prices have touched the new heights, Dollar became Rs. 79 from 61 in just 12 months. Pakistan is struggling under its biggest budget deficit in a decade, $21 billion; inflation that hit a 30-year high, 24.3 percent.

17. Judiciary & the brave son of all the four provinces Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammd Chodhri has not been restored yet. PPP has recently re-appointed 9 justices in Sindh and out of them just 1 is a native Sindhi and 8 are Muhajirs, which brings the number of Muhajir Justices to 24 out of 29 in Sindh High Court. The MQM representative corrupt muhajir Judge Anwer Zaheer Jamali has stopped the promotion of majority of Sindhi session & civil judges. 50 percent of newly proposed judges announced in daily Kawish are also muhajirs.

18. No provincial autonomy introduced & no initiative has been taken for new NFC award. Highways of Sindh, islands and coastal, Clifton & defence lands taken by Federation have not been returned to Province, Concurrent list remains intact, the sales, toll, and excise taxes are not yet been declared provincial revenues.

19. No Truth & Reconciliation Commission formed yet, no probe into assassinations of great Sheed Benazir Bhutto sahiba, Nawab Akber Bugti, Balach Maree, Munawer Suharwardi, Abduallah Murad Baloch, Meer Murtaza Bhutto & thousands of other Sindhis & Balochs.

20. In Sindh, Seraiki & Balochistan fast-rising unemployment is creating disaster, it is projected to reach 6.6 percent in 2009. Jobs of teachers, doctors, engineers clerics, nurses and policemen are being given for 1 to 15 lacs bribe. Overnight the middles class PPP , MQM, ANP, JUI & PML-N ministers have bought PRADOs, LEXUS, Range rovers, Land Cruisers. Civics, Corollas and Mark-11. They are living a lavish life in 1000 to 1600 yard lavish Bungalows in Karachi and their voters are left alone foodless, jobless and shelter less under the hot sun.

21. Crimes in Sindh province are increasing rapidly, MQM has established a new division to extort money through theft of mobile phones, car snatching & robberies, jihadees are committing bank robberies and the dacoits patronized by Sindhi feudal, police and intelligence agencies have made the life of Sindhi villagers miserable. Everyday 5/6 small growers, Hindu Sind businessman and low-grade govt officer are being kidnapped for ransom in rural areas.

22. PPP and MR Zardari are also planning to sell the valuable energy asset The Qadirpur gas field, second-largest natural gas reserve in country of 2.9 trillion cubic feet in the Indus River flood plain, it is may be one of the first big-ticket sales, Pakistan Railway, SSGC, Steel Mill & PIA are also in the queue for sale.

23. Sindh is being ruled by just 7 families of: 1-Mr Zardari, Mrs Azra Pechuho & Mrs Faryal Munawer, 2-Mr Altaf Hussain, 3-Peer Pagara, Yousif Raza & Saddarudin Shah, 4-Mr Zulfiqar Mirza, Mrs Fahmeeda Mirza, Peer Mazhar ul Haq, Qazi Asad Abid & Jam Saifullah Dharejo, 5-Agha Siraj Durani & Khursheed Shah, 6-Naveed Qamar, Sayed Qamar Zaman Shah & Sherry Rehman, 7-Sayed Qaim Ali Shah, Nafeesa Shah, Mr Durani, Asad Shah and Naheed Shah and 40 million people have no direct or indirect access to jobs, education, health an opportunities.

24. Sindhi and Bloch Prisoners are still in jails, people are still missing and operation in Balochistan continues. The prison conditions in Sukkur, Khairpur, Larkana, Hyderabad, Quetta and Mach Jails are dreadful and every day there are riots in Jails.

25. Everyday one can find a number of announcements made by PPP ministers, MNAs and MPAs and the very next day they forget what they said earlier and announce a new plan. Speeches and announcements have become a mockery of democracy.

26. Sindhi language has been forcibly driven out of Karachi and Latifabad delivering a near death blow to Sindhi language. None of the private Schools in Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur are teaching Sindhi Language in classes 1 to 5.

27. Except just one posting in UAE no Sindhi has been appointed as Ambassador / Consul General to any Country yet. No action has been taken or policy made for promotions of Sindhis as Generals, Brigadiers, Admirals and Air Martials. No Sindhi has been appointed as Chief of any Government owned Corporation.

28. Massive illegal immigration across the border from India & Afghanistan, from FATA Northern Areas and from distant lands and other provinces of Pakistan is exerting a fatal stress on the resources of Sindh. Biharis, muhajirs and Afghans have controlled all the entry and exit points of Karachi, Habb, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas and Sukkur. The remaining poetions of the govt lands have been occupied by PPP ministers, MNAs, MPAs, office bearers and their business
partners.

29. No quota of 75% or 80% has yet been fixed and implemented for the purpose of employment of indigenous Sindhi people in all private businesses, industries & multinational corporations.

30. Nationalists and writers like Gul Muhammad Jakhrani, Mahar Hussain Shah, Jalal Mahmoo Shah, Yousif Leghari, Zameer Ghurmo, Jam Saqi, Amar Sindhoo, Fatah Malik, Abrar Qazi Hameed Sindhi, Kazi Kahdim, Qasim Bughio, Qamar Shahbaz, Javed Leghari, Suleman Shaikh have either joined the ranks of govt or supporting them for tiny interests.

31. Clean and germ free drinking water is not yet been supplied to different districts & no action taken and or crash program launched to build farm to market roads and bridges connecting the taluka and district headquarters. Despite demands bridges for connecting Kandh kot wit Ghotki, Khairpur with Larkana and Sakrand with Manjhand are not yet built or even conceived. No new industries launched or proposed to be established in rural Sindh.

32. No new TV or radio station or new school, college or university are being announced for any remote district or taluka of Sindh. Jacobabad, Mithi, Qamber, Thatta, Sanghar, Badin, Umer Kot and Dadu still need new Universities & technical colleges but PPP is only busy in changing the names of existing institutes and towns and earning under MUFAHAMATI (reconciliation) policy.

33. First time in history of Pakistan only 3 Sindhi senators have elected out of 11 senators. An ut of 8 non-Sindhi Seneatos 5 have been nominated by PPP and 3 by MQM. Senator Islam u Din Shaikh and Senator Gul Mohamad Laat are openly claiming that they have given 15 crores each through Peer Mazhar, Sharjeel Memon, Ayaz Soomro and Khursheed Shah.

34. When development is continuing in Punjab under CMship of Shahbaz and Pakhtoon an Baloch representatives are raising their voice against hunger, poverty and atrocities, none of the Sindhi Ministers, MNAs, MPAs, Senators, Party Office Bearers, Nazims or any PPP leader has so far publicly raised any disagreement with Party leadership for the general Cause of Sindh, None of them has objected on any Anti Sindhi Policy or for lack of opportunities, jobs or Postings ad projects for rural Sindh and above all they have not brought forward any legislation for the benefits of public at large.

Dear elected representatives of PPP, Distinguished Sirs & Madams,, we the 40 million Sindhis respect your mandate and appreciate the sacrifices made by Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Sheed Benazir Bhutto sahiba & Meer Murtaza Bhutto but we have also suffered a lot, we have lost of sons and daughters under the dictatorships and tyrant rule of Yahya, Zia, Musharaf and Altaf Hussain and we are still waiting for some relief, please we should not be taken for granted, please reciprocate

Zaheer Jamali
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