Photo Courtesy: Daily Awami Awaz |
Photo Courtesy: Daily Awami Awaz |
The JSMM leader Shafi Burfat said in his speech through audio link that Sindh
wants complete independence and international community including United
Nations, Europe and West and the regional countries should help Sindh in
seeking its freedom. The speeches made in the congregation demanded following:
Sindh has historical and cultural right over the River Indus and its
waters, therefore Sindh would not allow the commissioning of Dam, Barrages or
any divergence structure by Punjab or any other nations. They demanded
international intervention over the water rights violation of Sindh by the
Punjab and undone the water usurping process.
The congregation declared Sindh’s national ownership and right over the all
natural resources of Sindh, including coal, gas, petroleum, forests, coast, sea,
fisheries, and the facilities like ports.
The immediate return of all illegal immigrants to their original provinces
in Pakistan and countries of origin was also demanded in the event. They slammed
state conspiracy to convert Sindhis into minority in their own province.
Immediate stopping the commissioning of Zufiqarabad Port in Sindh was
also one of the key demand of the participants.
Interference of intelligence agencies in the academic institutions of
Sindh was demanded that included the removal of forces from the schools and
hostels of academic institutions in order to provide a free and safer
environment to the students.
They also demanded the stopping construction of Madarsahs and settling
outsider religious extremist Mullahs in Sindh. They said that these are against
the historical national traditions, culture, and customs of Sufism, secularism,
non-violence in Sindh.
They also demanded to stop imposing ban over the political parties,
institutions, publications.
They also elaborative talked about the restoration of historical
national identity and sovereign status of Sindh along with economic and
political independence of Sindhi nation from Punjabi occupation.
They demanded international human rights bodies to take action and take
notice of heinous human rights violations through abducting, torturing and
brutally killing the Sindhi and Baloch nationalist activists by the intelligence
agencies as well as armed forces of Pakistan.
They also slammed establishment’s conspiracy to hinder the modern nation
formation in Sindh between Sindhi and Urdu speaking population.
They demanded the immediately stopping the storage and dumping of modern
atomic, chemical, nuclear weapons in the tunnels dig in the western mountainous
areas of Sindh adjacent to Baluchistan i.e.Qamber Shahdadkot, Sehwan, Jamshoro,
which pose a serious threat to the environment and biological processes of our
territory and existence of life in the region.
They also demanded that small and big cantonments established by Punjabi
Army to extend its imperialism over Sindh must be taken-off. They said that they
consider these cantonments as enforced imperialism, colonialism, and occupation
of Punjabi Army over our territory.