KARACHI: After Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s trenchant support for a separate Saraiki province carved out of south Punjab came the wave of posters demanding a Muhajir (refugee) province in Sindh – a clear tit for tat by the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) which rules Punjab.
Terming the display of posters demanding Muhajir province a conspiracy against democracy, both major coalition partners of the Sindh government, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) vowed to foil every attempt aimed at dividing the province, as reported by DAILY TIMES (13/3/12)
Unity was witnessed on the issue among leaders of both parties, when it was discussed in the Sindh Assembly (SA) again by a Pakistan Muslim League-Functional lawmaker, Nusrat Saher Abbasi. Speaking on a point of order, she claimed that she and other female members of the house, who had jointly moved a resolution against the demand for Muhajir province last Friday, have received threatening messages on their mobile phones.
Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan assured the PML-F lawmaker that the matter pertaining to threats would be investigated. However, he made clear the allied parties were unanimous against such conspiracies. He said nobody should worry about the threats, as the present government knows how to deal with such elements. He said that it was not the present government that took anti-Sindh decisions like controversial water accord and National Finance Commission Award. Later, talking to journalists after the house proceedings, the home minister said that an increase in complaints of extortion by the business community is being witnessed. “The same elements were trying to create pre-August situation again in the city. A conspiracy is being hatched for fueling ethnic riots again”, he added.
Senior Education and Literacy Minister Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, who is also the parliamentary leader of the ruling PPP in the house, said that the elements who could not digest reconciliatory political atmosphere in the province and country, hatch such conspiracies. He said that all the parties, including the MQM have passed a unanimous resolution against Muhajir province demand.
MQM parliamentary leader Syed Sardar Ahmed complained that a section of media had wrongly reported that MQM members did not participate in the resolution. He said that the resolution was passed unanimously with the support of all members. He also dispelled the impression that no MQM member had become part of movers of the resolution. According to him, nobody from the movers of the resolution approached the MQM members for their participation among the movers.
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