Zulfiqarabad: PPP vs Sindhi nationalists

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Re: Zulfiqarabad: PPP vs Sindhi nationalists

@Ali_Syed

If the justification of the nationalists against the city is that immigrants from other provinces might come there and convert them into minority,** that applies to all cities of sindh then. They wouldn’t want any city of sindh to be developed**, and then keep on complaining about the poverty of the region.

That’s true. And this conspiracy theory about Sindhis becoming minority due to this project, is immediately debunked by what you just said.

But JSQM et al would continue to spread such rumors among common people. And many will fall for it. That’s why PPP is trying to do damage control about it:

Zulfikarabad project: Legislation to avoid demographic change promised | DAWN.COM
Zulfikarabad project: Legislation to avoid demographic change promised
From the Newspaper | Habib Khan Ghori | 11th July, 2012
KARACHI, July 10: President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday sought to remove misgivings about the proposed port city project of Zulfikarabad that it would turn the locals of Thatta into a minority due to the influx of people from other parts of the country when he declared that necessary legislation would be done to ensure that only the locals retain property ownership rights.On the pattern of other countries where non-locals coming to contribute towards development schemes were issued specific cards, which did not give them right to own property there, the laws related to the proposed port city project would be amended, said the president…