SUKKUR: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Chief Altaf Hussain on Friday said
that his party’s massive gathering in Sukkur was the last nail in the
coffin of nationalists spreading hatred amongst the people of Sindh.
Addressing
a public rally in Sukkur via telephone from London, he said he would
protect Sindh. He added that Sindh adds 70 percent of revenue to the
national exchequer adding that if the province stops providing this 70
percent revenue, the country could not be run with only 30 percent.
Sindh should be given share as per the population.
MQM leader
said ’all Sindhis are equal there is no new or old’. He said he hated
the word ’minority’. Hussain further said he only wants elimination of
feudalism.
The MQM Chief called upon the provincial and federal
government to release funds for development projects in Sukkur. Hussain
also stressed for the establishment of university and college besides
standard hospital there.
He announced Rs.1 million for the
Sukkur press club and asked Rabitta Committee to issue this amount at
the earliest. Altaf said Shia and Sunni lawyers were being killed in
Karachi, adding that it is a conspiracy to bring them face to face. He
urged the people to foil all such conspiracies.
Altaf demanded
of the government to provide security to lawyers’ fraternity and
journalists. He also asked the government to improve the overall law and
order situation in the province.
Issue of Balochistan should be
resolved amicably, he said and added use of power should be avoided in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Peace be restored in KPK by taking people into
confidence, he said.
He said nationalists talk about Shah Abdul
Latif Bhittai but the message of great sufi poet is ’love’. Calling
himself the son of the soil and hailing Sindh as his mother, Hussain
said that the people gathered at the rally today have rejected hatred by
coming here. “The political manipulation has ended and the Mohajirs and
Sindhis are standing here like an unbreakable steel wall,” Hussain
said.
The MQM chief also said that Sindh’s contribution to the
national revenue is about 70 per cent, which is more than any other
province. “If Sindh is given its due share of wealth, then it can
prosper and will end the feudal system,” he added. Online
