Major Grievances Of The Sindhis

• - Karachi was separated and made the capital of Pakistan, and it remained under federal exploitation till 1971.
• - Forced migration of Sindhi Hindus from Sindh. Sindh was deprived of its educated and skilled middle classes.
• - The allotment of the evacuated properties and the most fertile agricultural lands near Gudu and Kotri Barrage to immigrants from India and to the retired military and civil bureaucrats.
• - The formation of One Unit, which resulted in the total abolition of statehood for all the provinces. This was done just to deny equal sharing of resources to Province of Bengal and other smaller provinces.
• - Continuous migration from Punjab and other provinces. Official re-settlements of Biharis from Bangladesh, and Afghanis. Additionally, the construction of Tarbela and Rawal Dams caused a great influx of immigrants from NWFP and Punjab to Sindh.
• - Forced Islamization and denial of indigenous cultures and Sufi traditions. State controlled media and school curricula popularize Islamic heroes and preach Pan-Islamicism and Two- Nation Theory, which is against the grain of Sindhi people.
• - State sponsored dominance of the Urdu language and total negligence of the indigenous languages, literature and heritage.
• - Direct or indirect military rule or the 'governor rule' throughout the 55 years of so-called freedom.
• - Hundreds of Sindhis killed by the state agencies in 1983 and 1986 during the campaigns for Movement of Restoration of Democracy. Also massacres of Balochs were carried out in 1947 and 1973, and Bengalis in 1970-71.
• - Repeated federal dismissal of elected assemblies of Sindh and other provinces in 1992, 1995, 1998 and 1999. Military manipulated the current ‘civilian’ government of 2002.
• - State engineered civil wars among various communities in Sindh. Total negligence of law and order in Sindh, resulting in the paralysis of civic life.
• - Unfair allocation of funds for Sindh, e.g. NFC Award, PSDP, etc.
• - Continued efforts for the construction of Thal Canal, Kalabagh Dam, which have been disapproved by all the provincial assemblies except the Punjab assembly. Various dams and barrages have been built on River Indus resulting in the lack of irrigation in Sindh.
• - Manipulations of population census figures.
• - The construction of Asia’s largest military cantonments in Sindh.
• - Spending more than 70% of total budget on defense and debt servicing.
• - Unequal water distribution that has damaged Sindh’s agriculture