People Of Sindh Demand Apology From Biased Geo TV Anchor Shahzad Iqbal

The people of Sindh have shown their grieve feelings as their sentiments were hurt by a private news channel's anchor when he mentioned Karachi that happens to be the capital of Sindh, as a separate province, which has caused a serious concern for the unity of Sindh.

In his talk show the Geo TV (News) anchor named Shahzad Iqbal while having a heated discussion with senior PPP leader Nisar Khuro went on to say "Karachi, a separate" province, this biased statement hurt the sentiments of entire Sindhi nation and people of Sindh have started a social media campaign against Geo TV (News) and its biased anchor and have announced to boycott the transmission of Geo TV (News) till that biased anchor Shahzad Iqbal asks for an apology from entire Sindhi nation for hurting sentiments.

In this regards social media activist Mukhtiar Abbasi called for boycott of Geo TV (News), while he called Shahzad Iqbal agent of RAW.

Another Sindhi social media activist Ulfat Hussain Pitafi wrote on his wall:

"Geo TV and its anchor Shahzad Iqbal must tender apology to people of Sindh on his negative remarks against Sindh in his program."

Rights and social media activist Sattar Zangeja has called this as an attack on unity of Sindh and claimed that the sentiments of entire Sindhi nation were hurt by such a bias remark.

           Jang Group Repeats Its History Of Being Bias Towards Sindh:

Historian Sibte Hassan wrote that: "The local Sindhis residing mostly down-town in the metropolis warmly welcomed the mohajirs and assisted them in occupying the houses and shops evacuated by the Hindus. The same thing happened in other major towns of Sind, with the result that today the new Sindhis form a majority in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Khairpur, Nawabshah and Tando Adam. In Larkana they constitute about half the population. The old Sindhis are in a majority only in Thatta, Sanghar, Dadu and Jacobabad.

The refugees were allotted most of the evacuee property — land, houses, shops, factories, etc. They also occupied most of the vacant and newly created posts in the Administration. Thus the influx of millions of refugees from across the border introduced a new ethnical element in the body politics of Sind. Their mode of life and cultural traditions, their language and literature were substantially different from those of the local people although they all professed the same religion."

 However, in 1971, ethnic riots emerged in Karachi, the capital of Sindh when Mumtaz Bhutto, the than Governor of Sindh, announced Sindhi to be the official language of Sindh province, which was not at all welcomed by Urdu speaking intellectuals and they started resisting against.

Raees Amrohi through Jang newspaper added fuel to the fire, the Sindh Assembly passed the Sind Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972 that created conflict and language violence in the regime of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, he wrote his famous line "Urdu ka janaza hai zara dhoom say niklay (It is the funeral of Urdu, carry it out with fanfare)."