HYDERABAD: The Sindh Action Committee (SAC) has demanded Sindh government should immediately repatriate all illegal immigrants, especially Afghan nationals, to their parent countries.

The SAC leaders who met here on Friday with Roshan Ali Buriro in the chair decided to hold a public meeting at Gymkhana Chowk on Aug 21 over the issue of settlement of illegal immigrants, especially Afghans in Sindh.

The meeting attended by representatives of different nationalist parties and groups including Hyder Shahani, Masroor Shah, Taj Joyo, Deedar Sham, Punhal Jamali, Dr Badar Channa and others noted that the illegal immigrants especially Afghans were a direct burden on Sindh`s demography and called for compliance of Supreme Court`s order for the repatriation of illegal immigrants.

It urged the Sindh government to implement Sindh High Court`s judgment to get land in Scheme-33 retrieved from illegal immigrants and said work permit should be issued to people who came to Sindh for work.

Migrant workers should not be allowed to get permanent residence certificates, domiciles, own property and get themselves registered as voters, it said.

It asked the Sindh government to cancel its decision to regularise colonies of Afghans and other illegal immigrants and condemned dismantlement of Ghazi Goth in Karachi.

It demanded regularisation of villages in the province and slammed attack on Sindhi students in Karachi University by activists of Jamaat-i-Islami, demanding arrest of the culprits.