HYDERABAD: Sind Chief Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi declared here today [Feb 4] that there could be no discrimination between the various sections of population in Sind on account of language or place of origin.

`In Sind, we are all Sindhis, and Pakistanis, the Chief Minister said at a reception. ... The people`s Government both at the Centre and in the provinces was serving the people `without any discrimination`.

He said he did not like to refer [to] anybody as `Muhajir`, adding that they might have been `Muhajirs` 25 years ago but now they were all Sindhis and Pakistanis, like the other people of Sind. He said during the last general elections, political parties opposedtothePPPhadpropagatedthatPPP was against Islam, and a large number of ulema belonging to these parties had come out with `fatwas` against Premier Bhutto and the Party. This propaganda had affected the religious minded people.

`However, since we came to power, we have given ample proof that no government serves Islam better than us,` he explained.

This, he said, was the reason that people from all walks of life ... were now joining the PPP in large numbers. Staff correspondent