Staff Reporter
The Sindh Action Committee, an alliance of nationalist parties of Sindh, staged a sit-in in front of the Governor’s House Sindh, to protest against the government’s plan to take over twin islands Bundar and Budda off the Karachi coast.
According to details, the rally was attended by a large number of women and youth with banners and placards.
The protesters demanded reversal of the presidential ordinance for the formation of Pakistan Islands Development Authority.
The alliance leaders, on the occasion, said that the federal government’s decision to constitute PIDA was unconstitutional and it was against the provincial sovereignty.
They also accused the PPP’s Sindh government of being behind the conspiracy through its hostile policies. They said that the central government from the beginning usurped the fundamental rights of Sindh.
They said the federal government was not only occupying the two islands but rather the province’s coastal areas. They asked the people of Sindh to support the movement for protecting the islands en masse.
Thousands of people chanted slogans for the territorial sanctity of Sindh raising voices against alleged “Niazi-Zardari” collaboration over Sindh’s islands. They reiterated upon the Sindh PPP government to challenge the PIDA ordinance in the Council of Common Interests.
