CP of Pakistan, JOINT DECLARATION OF THE 13 LEFTIST PARTIES ON THE ON-GOING TENSION IN SINDH AND CRIMINAL ATTITUDE OF THE FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS

7/18/22 3:29 PM
  • Pakistan, Communist Party of Pakistan En Asia Communist and workers' parties

 

WE, THE Leftist Parties, strongly condemn the tragic incidents that occurred in Hyderabad which resulted in loss of life and limb and damage to precious property. Some arrests have been made in consequence of  lodging of the FIR of  the occurrences. We demand that all nominated accused should be brought to justice in a fair trial. We are of the considered opinion that as a reaction to this sorrowful incident, attacking hotels, restaurants, public and private transport and peaceful pedestrians and subjecting them to indignities and inhumane treatment is in no way tenable and justified. We condemn these brutal acts as well.

These happenings are eye-opener to stress upon us the realization of nationalistic or national contradictions and conflicts that have bedeviled Pakistani society.

The State of Pakistan should prioritize the discharge of responsibility to remove the genuine apprehensions of Sindhis. We feel that if the Supreme Court verdict in law and order situation case in Sindh had been implemented in letter and spirit for which the deadline of 2018 was set for its execution, the situation would have been quite different today and we would have been spared such horrible and gory scenes of death and destruction unfolding in the length and breadth of the urban areas of Sindh.

We put forward this inexorable demand that in the light of the SC decision all illegal immigrants should be deported to their countries of origin which is vital for the maintenance of peace and controlling the law and order situation in Sindh. The State of Pakistan which has already been beset with an intense crisis and anarchic situation is guilty of criminal inaction and negligence for two long days of killing, arson, plunder and destruction that speaks volumes of insensitivity of the Federal and Provincial Governments. Both governments were conspicuous by their absence which is very hard to interpret otherwise than their complicity in and sufferance of the whole tragic episode. It certainly gives credence to the notion that the government worked as a catalyst to get the citizenry at each other's throat and bay for each other's blood to deflect their attention from the real crisis so that the forces of social change are deprived of uniting masses for the larger aim of achieving just and egalitarian society.

It is the primal objective of the ruling elite to cause divisions in the society through ethnic dissensions and disputes to prolong its exploitative and oppressive rule over gullible masses. The authorities and political figures put in place cosmetic measures and gloat over putting behind the bars and beating the culprits to distract people's attention from the real issues and problems.

We consider the Sindh government and the Rangers responsible for adding fuel to the fire. The Rangers have been for the last thirty-five years getting lion's share of budgetary allocation that runs in hundreds of millions but still their inefficiency incompetence and slothfulness is writ large as they fail to stem or forestall such untoward incidents.

We appeal to the brave Sindhi people to refrain from fighting and getting embroiled in controversies with other ethnic communities and direct their protests and anger instead against the state and Sindh government that have sowed the seeds of discontent, deprivation, restlessness, dissension, frustration and injustice. In their struggle and fight against the state for their genuine and alienable rights they will find us shoulder to shoulder with them.

We call upon Pakhtun brethren that the Pakhtuns and Sindhis both are oppressed nationalities and so it makes no sense to fight a war of attrition among themselves instead of struggling against the ruling elite that is squarely responsible for their myriads of miseries and high incidence of poverty and destitution.

We extend our appeal to the Afghans as well that Afghanistan has been turned into virtual rubble through despicable jihad business of imperialist forces and Pakistani generals which scenario forced them to leave their hearth and home . It is now incumbent upon them to play  their role in building a peaceful environment for their own good and foil the evil designs of global conspirators by not becoming party to local disputes and quarrels that might create the impression of them contributing to conflicts and illegal possessions.

In the last,  we  earnestly assert on  the labourers, peasants, women, youth and masses in general that if today they find themselves steeped in the situation of inflation, joblessness and other social and economic ills, it is solely thanks to the ruling elite and civil-military bureaucracy. They have - in their mad pursuit for luxurious life and making properties - turned the country insolvent and out at elbows while leaving the country and her people at the mercy of imperialist lending organizations like IMF, etc. They should rise and struggle against the oppressive and exploitative forces. Unless we wrench out our emancipation from them, we cannot achieve our class and national rights, shaking off the yoke of poverty and deprivation. Freedom from them will be the harbinger of happiness and prosperity and getting means for honorable and dignified living.

Names of the Parties.

1. Communist Party of Pakistan

2. Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party

3. National Party

4. Pakistan Inqilabi Party

5. Pakistan Mazdoor Mahaz

6. Awami Tahreek

7. Awami Jamhori Party

8. Mazdoor Kisan Party

9.Pakistan Seraiki Party

10 Jummu Kashmir People's Party.

11.  Jummu Kashmir National Awami Party

12 .Gilgit Baltistsn Awami Workers Party

13 . Gilgit-Baltistan Bachao Tahrek