KARACHI, July 21: Expressing concerns over migration of people belonging to the Kutchhi community from Lyari, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) said on Sunday that the conflict between Baloch and Kutchhi people was a conspiracy to destabilise Pakistan.

Speaking at a press conference, the general secretary of the Sindh chapter of the PMLN, Salim Zia, said that the lawlessness in Lyari often caused closure of the Karachi port, affected the fisheries and the medicine market and also disturbed work at the Lyari truck stand that halted transportation of goods and affected the entire economy of the country.He said that the lawlessness in Lyari was not only affecting biggest industrial estates site of Pakistan but also cut of Balochistan from the land route with the closure of Hub River Road and also affects Masroor airbase which is the biggest airbase of Pakistan.

He said Baloch and Kachhi people were living in Lyari with harmony for the past two centuries, but now the situation had flared up to an extent that hundreds of Kachhi families had shifted to Badin.

Mr Zia said that both the communities had a long association with the PPP but the bloody confrontation during the PPP government suggested that it was not merely an outcome of some money extortion, but actually a conspiracyto destablise Pakistan.

The PML-N leader expressed his surprise over a reported solution to construct a wall to divide the localities of both communities in Lyari on a pattern of the Berlin Wall for restoring peace.

He asked if such a solution could restore peace in the locality. He said whether it was an issue of targeted killing or lawlessness in Lyari, the Sindh government failed to solve the pressing problems of the people and when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his concern and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali took notice of the situation some provincial ministers had interpreted it as a move towards imposition of the governor`s rule in Sindh.