10 years before karachi

Thursday, February 25, 2010
Karachi, February 25, 2000
Former chairman, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), Basheer Qureshi, on Thursday said the rights of Sindh were being usurped and the people were being subjected to various sorts of at5rocities and injustices.
This he stated at a joint press briefing at Nine-Zero Azizabad along with Muttahida leaders where Qureshi along with other JSQM leaders had gone to lunch on Thursday.
Muttahida has received an invitation to join the JSQM protest on February 19 at the Karachi Press Club, but any final decision will be taken by the Muttahida Coordination Committee.
Muttahida senators Aftab Ahmed Sheikh and Nasreen Jaleel, besides other leaders were present on the occasion. Qureshi said thousands of people were being rendered jobless and all these injustices are being done at the behest of the Punjab establishment. He said Sindhi and Urdu speaking people are the permanent residents of Sindh and their interests were connected with this province.
He stressed that the JSQM and Muttahida were unanimous that they would continue joint efforts to eliminate the supremacy of the Punjab from Sindh province as the Sindhis were being made landless and in practical terms they were being turned into a minority in their own province.
The JSQM leader said that the Super Highway had been handed over to the federal government and all the staff appointed for the highway was from the Punjab. He claimed that more than 2,000 people had been removed from Pakistan Steel and army was being inducted into the organization.
— News selected by Saeed Mohiuddin, Reference Library filed by our correspondent, The News