Dr Qadar Khan Magsi, Chief of Sindh Traqqi Pasand Party (STPP) has said that National Assembly was dominated by Punjab and it had occupied all national resources whereas Senate by Pushtoons and both were exploiting the Sindh and Balochistan.
Delivering his speech at a reception hosted in his honour by Mian Mansoor Karim Siyal, Secretary General of Pakistan Seraiki Party here on Saturday, he said that MQM is a terrorist organisation which was plotting to dismember the country and it was involved in May 12 carnage.
He favoured the recommendations submitted by Sindh government to federal government about the provincial autonomy and demanded that Islamabad should retain only three subjects of defence, currency and foreign affairs.
He said "The concurrent list should be abolished immediately and all the powers of education, health, agriculture, communication and other provincial subjects should be transferred to provinces and the federal government should retain only three subjects." He added, the abolishment of the concurrent list was the core theme of the suggestions of the Sindh government.
Qadar Khan Magsi suggested an independent national finance commission and asked for changes in the tax collection system, adding that the system should be restructured for the distribution of resources from federation to provinces and in the divisible pool of NFC and proposed that the federal government should get share of tax from provinces on their population after collection of taxes by federal board of revenue.
If Sindh's proposals were accepted, Sindh would give 23.5 percent federal share, Punjab 57 percent, NWFP 13 percent and Balochistan would give 5 percent to federal government from tax collected from the provinces according to their population. He said that Seraiki is also an oppressed nationality and government should constitute a fifth federating unit of Seraikistan.
The reception was also addressed by Dr Ahmed Naunari, Abd-i-Fateh Samejo, Musarrat Channa, Dr Nawaz Gauhati, Malik Shafqat Maitla, Javed Chanar, Abdul Sattar Thaheem, Malik Liaquat Ali Kamboh, Malik Ghazanfar Abbas Rana, Haji Ahmed Nawaz Somroo.