Please read the e-mail below from Sassui Palijo about yet another serious attack on the rights of native. This plan has "conspiracy" written all over it as it will eventually facilitate breaking of Sindh.
I hope this time we Sindhis will not stop at half-hearted protests but unify to create unmatched non-violent movement to stop this and other conspiracies against the interests of native Sindhis in their tracks.
Khalid Hashmani
McLean, Virginia, USA
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From: Sassui Palijo
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 22:17:49 +0000
The present authoritarian regime is following a divide and rule policy in Sindh. The proposed division of Thatta district is the latest example of how to systematically break yet another provincial district of historical and strategic significance.
The division is blatantly against the wishes and the core interests of the people of Sindh. We believe it is a conspiracy that will eventually lead to disintegration of the province. The provincial government continues to act on the dictates of its coalition partner in Sindh, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. This malicious proposal for the bifurcation of Thatta has also been forwarded by MQM.
But this time around the district under the hammer is not a banal one and neither are the reasons behind such division administrative oriented. The proposed division is not a simple case of creating a new district, it is an old political ambition of the Muttahida, which wants to control Thatta�s oceanic border, its coastal belt and precious land of its indigenous people.
In this years World bank report yet again the most down trodden poverty stricken region of the country shown are the coastal belt areas of Badin and Thatta namely Keti Bandar, Shah Bandar, Ali Bandar, Ghora Bari, Kharo Chaan and several others where the common man satiates his hunger and thirst by drinking black tea and contaminated water giving rise to epidemic of water borne diseases and ulcers.
However if we were to look closely, Thatta is blessed with minerals, stone, coastal belt, delta and an all important border with the Indian waters which makes it a district of immense strategic importance which like Badin has vast reserves of untapped natural gas and oil.
According to one source the oil reserves of Thatta would dwarf those of the neighbouring Badin and on the other hand groundwork is being prepared for developing Keti bandar port in the same breadth as that of Gwadar. Despite all these potentials, the indigenous man here is living in abhorrent conditions which are worse then even those of the red Indians of north America.
On one side coastal belt natives are already facing the challenges of natural catastrophes whereas man made crises are being forced upon them on the other side which is gradually pushing these people back to the stone age. These natives have never been consulted regarding any mega projects like RBOD or the building of the big dams like the highly controversial Kalabagh dam which could directly affect this lower riparian region.
The districts strategic significance coupled with, the design to accommodate the outsiders and turn the locals into an insignificant minority , is raising several doubts and it has lead us to having serious reservations that this may as well be the beginning of a great scheme of things which would culminate with the province of Sindh being broken and divided.
It should not be forgotten that even in the black rule of general Zia, there was an open admittance of the intent to cut the region from Sindh�s coastal belt to Balochistan area of Jiwani Makran. The present Government is also following the same formula to divide Sindh but we refuse to allow such malicious division of the Thatta district. However this time round the establishment would face unparalleled resistance.
We strongly deplore such conspiracy to divide our land .We will continue to resist and defend the legitimate and historical boundaries of the district.
Sassui Palijo
Thatta
From: G H Khwaja
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 15:16:13 +0500
Dear All,
Government of Sindh has is planing to create a new coastal district comprising over 10 Union Councils of Bin Qasim including Ibrahim Haidri, Reri Miyan , and three coastal tehsils of District Thatta , i.e; Mir Pur Sakro, Keti Bundar , and Kharochan.
Conspiracy to occupy and deprive Sindh from its coastal belt, historical Bhambhore ruins, was already devised. Yet district is to announced officially in next few months. Planning to deprive Sindh from its coastal area has been finalized.
In past MQM had welcomed the chief minister�s decision to create more District in Sindh Province, by creating four districts Tandoallayar, Hyderabad, Tando Muhammad Khan and Matyari . That was termed as significant improvement in the administrative structure Dr. Arbab Rahim CM Sindh has brought about.
Being a Sindhi kindly raise your voice over issue .
Hussain
Thatta
