Protesters loaded on 25 boats made their way to Bhandar and Dingi on Thursday, to register their protest against develop-ment on the islands. PHOTO: EXPRESSThe Sindh Action Committee, consisting of nationalist political parties, took to the streets across Sindh to protest the Centre's "occupation" of Bhandar and Dingi islands, off Karachi's shores. "The Centre would never have dared to promulgate the [Pakistan Islands Development Authority] ordinance if the provincial government hadn't given the NOC," he insisted. Buriro warned that Sindh's people would rather be termed traitors than letting the federation occupy the province's islands. Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz's (JSQM) Deedar Sham said the federal government was not only occupying the two islands but rather the province's seas.

Source: The Express Tribune October 18, 2020 06:11 UTC