Geneva
Highlighting the gross human rights violations by Pakistan and China using the ‘brutal military machines’, the Baloch, Sindhi and other leaders provided insights about how the respective governments are exploiting the resources of the region and eliminating their communities by way of keeping them undernourished and illiterate.
Speaking at the conference at the Press Club in Geneva, Dr Lakhumal Luhana, General Secretary of the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) said that during the partition in 1947, Sindh came to Pakistan and that was the start of a “very darkest era”.
Sindh, according to the official figures, provides 70 per cent of the resources of the wealth of the revenue of Pakistan. However, the situation is such that 7 million children under the age of 10 are out of education, he said.
Luhana further said that the real figures are that 67 per cent of girls are out of education. About 80 per cent of the schools don’t have water or sanitation facilities.
He said that according to the Supreme Court, the drinking water that the people of Sindh use is not even suitable for animal consumption and it is creating a pandemic of hepatitis and tuberculosis.
Talking about the land captured by the Pakistani government, he said they are taking over millions of acres of land, they are settling people from outside so Sindhis can be converted into a minority on their own motherland.
World Sindhi Congress leader continued saying that currently, 60 per cent of the youth who have passed through universities are out of employment.
“Level of malnutrition, according to the UN, on an average 70 per cent of people in Sindh suffer from malnutrition. 10 children die of malnutrition every day in Sindh,” he added.
He highlighted that if you raise the voice, “you are abducted, you’re gone. You’re missing”.
