HYDERABAD: PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that his party will neither allow a division of Sindh nor will it agree to any alteration with its boundaries.
Rejecting the proposal of a referendum on the issue moved by Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, he said: ‘There is no need for a referendum when the Constitution offers a solution’.
Mr Khuhro was speaking to media personnel on Saturday at PPP’s Hyderabad division office after chairing a meeting of the party’s divisional and district chapters.
The meeting was held to discuss arrangements for Sindh-wide cele-bration of PPP foundation day on Nov 30.
PPP Hyderabad Division President Ajiz Dhamra, General Secretary Gyanchand Esrani, District President Tariq Shah Jamot and otherleaders,includingWaseem Rajput, as well as lawmakers from the area attended the meeting.
Mr Khuhro said that the founding day would be observed in a befitting manner to mark completion of the party’s 60 years, adding that gatherings in this regard would be held in each and every district.
PPP Chairman Bilawal BhuttoZardari would address the participants, he said.
‘It’s immaterial to discuss Mohsin Nagvi’s proposal even if he repeats his statement on new administrative units for 50 times, he remarked, and argued that ‘a referendum is held on an issue for which a constitutional solution is not available’.
He recalled that military dictators held referendums twice through ordinances after suspending the Constitution. ‘When theConstitution is there and it offers a solution, there is no need for a referendum,’ he asserted.
He said: ‘PPP wants protection of Sindh’s autonomy; I am not talking about other provinces’.
Sindh Assembly’s resolution on the issue is this province’s ‘final decision’, he declared, and advised Mr Naqvi to meet President Asif Zardari whenever and wherever he liked to seek PPP’s view on the issue.
Mr Khuhro criticised media for unnecessarily linking Mr Nagvi’s meetings with President Zardari with the proposal to create new provinces in the country.
He said that this year, Sindh Assembly had ensured protection of Sindh’s integrity by adopting such a resolution. He added that the assembly made it clear that it did not want any change in the geographical limits of the province. The draft of the 28th Amendment had never been even shared with any political stakeholder and, as such, nobody knew anything about it.