BADIN: Participants in a multiparty conference (APC) organised by the Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz (PML-N) strongly opposed creation of Bhambhore division at Makli and annexation of Badin district into it. They resolved to resist the plan and mobilise people from all walks of life to join in a vigorous drive to force the government to reverse the decision.

Representatives of the Sindh United Party, Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf, Qaumi Awami Tehreek, Sindh Abadgar Board, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum and various other political, social organisations aswell as businessman community attended the conference.

They slammed the government for creating the new division against the wishes of the people of Badin district and vowed to launch a protest movement along with other parties.

PML-N leader and former Sindh minister Mohammad Ismail Rahu said that creation of the new division was aimed at facilitating the execution of the Zulfikarabad project, already rejected by the people of Sindh, and handing over Karachi and Hyderabad to non-Sindhis.

`People of Badin district will never accept any such decision,being imposed on them,` he said, adding that the matter would be takenwell as businessman community attended the conference.

They slammed the government for creating the new division against the wishes of the people of Badin district and vowed to launch a protest movement along with other parties.

PML-N leader and former Sindh minister Mohammad Ismail Rahu said that creation of the new division was aimed at facilitating the execution of the Zulfikarabad project, already rejected by the people of Sindh, and handing over Karachi and Hyderabad to non-Sindhis.

`People of Badin district will never accept any such decision,being imposed on them,` he said, adding that the matter would be takenup with the federal government.

Dr Dodo Mehri of the Sindh United Party observed that the ruling party was taking such decisions only to please its coalition partners and extend undue favour to builders.

Syed Sikander Shah aka Pappu Shah of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional said his party would fully take part in the movement to save Badin district from being annexed into the new division.

Haji Abdul Majeed Nizamani of the Sindh Abadgar Board said that no sane person could take or accept such the decision, arguing that revenue records of lands in Badin district was kept in Hyderabad.

Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum chair-man Syed Mohammad Ali Shah said that the creation of the sixth division comprising nine coastal tehsils within Thatta, Sujawal and Badin districts was a big conspiracy against the fishing community. He said the community would stand up to foil the conspiracy hatched by those elements who were bent upon usurping the rights of the downtrodden.

Taj Mohammad Mallah, representing Badin traders, said that the district had remained a part of Hyderabad division and nobody would be allowed to separate it.

He argued that the people of Badin had great stakes in Hyderabad, which was the economic hub of central Sindh.