KARACHI - The Sindhi nationalists have decided not to be part of any movement launched by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) of Tahirul Qadri to oust the PML-N government at the centre.
Though, both the parties - PTI and PAT - have not made any contact with the Sindhi nationalists, yet they have decided to stay away from any agitation movement launched by both the parties to topple the government.
When contacted, Sindh United Party (SUP) chief and Convener of the Sindh Save Committee, a united front of over 12 nationalist groups, Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah told The Nation that no one from PTI as well as PAT had contacted them to join their protest struggle against the government. Shah said they supported the view of the PTI and PAT about the fake mandate of all the governments including central government of PML-N as well as in the provinces as last elections were rigged. He, however, declared that Sindh Bachayo Committee, comprising 12 nationalist groups, would not be part of any act of agitation launched by the PTI and PAT to destabilise the government and democratic system.
The nationalist leader also emphasised upon the electoral reforms approved by the parliament with legal guarantees of independence of the election commission to ensure transparent, fair and free elections in future.
Jalal Shah, who had been an ally of the PML-N in the last elections, criticised Sharif government for its poor performance in resolving the issues relating to the public. He also termed the present system of PML-N government a controlled democracy, which needed to change the constitution for electoral reforms through parliament.
The Sindh United Party (SUP) of Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, who served as Deputy Speaker of Sindh Assembly in 1997, currently leading a protest movement against the influx of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of North Waziristan in the Sindh province. The nationalist groups, during their first phase of protest, staged sit-ins in almost all the cities and at national high ways to halt transport from Punjab and other provinces towards Sindh. In the second phase, they have given a shutter-down and wheel-jam protest strike call in the province. Besides, nationalist leaders have wrote letters to the UNHRC chief in Pakistan, Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and members of Sindh Assembly and MNAs from Sindh, urging them to play their role in stopping the influx of IDPs of North Waziristan in the Sindh province.