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Palejo calls for

accountability of civil,

milistary bureaucracy

HAFEEZ SHAIKH

HYDERABAD: The Chief of Awami Tahreek, Rasool Bux Palejo on Sunday demanded that all those who had imposed martial law in the country on three occasions and their present representatives should be tried in the court of law and the military and civil bureaucracy should be subjected to accountability.

He was delivering his key note address at the Sindh Conference held on the roof of the Hyderabad Press Club on the subject of "existing government policies and the point of view of Sindh".

He said Nawaz Sharif should be hanged ten thousand times not in the plane hijacking case but for the massacre of Sindhi people through his agents and terrorists.

He accused Punjab of unleashing inhuman atrocities on Sindh through the "bureaucracy of UP" and of imposing martial law in the country on three occasions.

He said all the decisions taken during the martial law regime were wrong and demanded that a commission on the pattern of Hamoodur Rehman commission should be constituted to investigate into the misrule of the martial law rulers.

He said the Punjabi ruling group had taken loans to the tune of billions of rupees from various countries and rendered the country bankrupt.

"Who will be made accountable for this", he asked.

Palejo said the rulers had imposed terrorists over Sindh, and added that those who had murdered Mohammad Ali Jinnah had now become the heirs of Jinnah, the owners of the country.

He alleged that all the civilian and military rulers were the slaves and agents of imperialism, and added that right from Liaquat Ali Khan to Nawaz Sharif all had been humiliated.

He wondered if the fate of the present rulers would be different.

He termed the proposal of district governments as a conspiracy against the provinces, and added that the consequences will be disastrous.

He said that elections were mere fraud, and added that even if Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai was to contest elections today, he would lose miserably.

Palejo made it clear that those who were raising the slogans of "We do not want Pakistan and goodbye Pakistan" were misleading the Sindhi nation. He said the problems of Sindh could not be resolved by raising such slogans.

Speaking on the occasion, the chief of Sindh National Congress, Dr G M Bhurgari, said that the present government had only one policy: destroy Sindh.

He said the politicians and nationalists had debased the word 'nationalist' and added that the chief of JSQM, Bashir Khan Qureshi, was "sitting in the lap of MQM, which was the outpost of Punjab".

Resolutions: The conference demanded that Sindh province be immediately given its share of irrigation water, proposal of district governments, establishment of metropolitan police and handing over of Super Highway to the federal government should be shelved all the nations should be given equal rights, the federating units should be given complete provincial autonomy, the Senate should be given more powers, equal representation should be given to all the nations as the chiefs of army, navy air force the president and prime minister of Pakistan, and senate chairman and equal representation should be given to Sindhi-speaking people and other linguistic groups on post of judges and federal secretaries.