KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM-P) on Thursday demanded a separate province in Sindh comprising of urban parts of the province and vowed to continue struggle for it.
Party made this demand at Karachi march held against the injustices with Karachi and getting Karachi its due rights.
Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Convener MQM-P in his address said that a new province would be carved out at all cost in Sindh. "You just give it a name. We will determine its geographical boundaries," he stated.
He said that party is criticised whenever it talks about the rights of Karachi. Today, we have come out for Karachi and would get a province, Siddiqui said and announced that the party would take to streets again in October and November.
Siddiqui said that now it is hard to live in Sindh and vowed to create a province in evacuee Sindh. He said a new province in Sindh is inevitable and added that party would not deter in the face of threats being hurled at it.
Senior Deputy Convener MQM-P Aamir Khan said that those claiming that party has vanished should see the participants of today's march of the party and added that conspiracies started against party since the day of its foundation.
He said that today's march of the party is for a separate province and vowed to create a new province in Sindh come what may. "Just see we are demanding a new province," Aamir khan retorted while addressing those who are against the division of Sindh.
"The new province in Sindh would be carved out in urban parts of the province," he announced and said that the biggest among all demands is South Sindh province.
MQM-P leader Faisal Sabzwari addressing the participants of the march said that today is the gathering of taxpayers of the country as only the Liquatabad area of Karachi contributes more in the national exchequer than Islamabad and Lahore combined.
He deplored that Karachi contributed highest in the taxes but the development projects are being executed in other parts of the country.
He also criticised the results of national census and noted that population of Karachi was not counted as per its actual strength and if its population was counted rightly the chief minister of Sindh would come from Karachi rather than from Larkana.
Earlier, the march started from Liquatabad area of Karachi and after passing through various parts of the city culminated at Mazar-e-Quaid. A large number of party workers participated in the march, who held national and party flags and chanted slogans for giving Karachi its due rights.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020