HYDERABAD: A meeting of Awami Tehreek`s central committee held on Sunday resolved to hold a series of rallies at district level in Sindh from Jan 3. It decided to hold a rally in Karachi on Feb 12 to highlight core issues of Sindh.

The meeting, chaired by Lal Jarwar, accused Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his associates of bargaining away Sindh`s mineral and other resources, besides lands, `in his lust for powers`. It said that land grabbing was being facilitated in the name of housing schemes. It also accused Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah of being facilitator in the corrupt practice.

The meeting noted that Sindh Assembly had adopted a resolution to hand over authority over Sindh`s mineral and natural resources to the federation which, it alleged, was `treachery with the people of Sindh`.

It said that the decision negated principles of the 1940 Resolution. It added that on the one hand, the Sindh Assembly handed over the authority to the federal govemment and, on the other, the provincial government was facilitating influx of outsiders by providing them undue facilities. It rejected creation of a new ministry for Kashmiris. It also accused PPP of handing over authority of bigger cities to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakitan in lieu of its support for a no-confidence motion against outsted prime minister Imran Khan and for the sake of its own rule.