The Best Post on SANALIST..Uncle TOMS of Sindh

Will someone please let me know what has the Bhutto family, or PPPP (I have lost count of how many Ps they currently have) ever done for Sindh or Sindhis, except derail the cause of Sindh at every critical juncture in recent history. They have time and again sold Sindh's interests for their personal glory and profits, and the opportunity to sleep with their masters in Islamabad, the most recent example being what it is doing right now.

PPP has decided to throw a lifeline to MQM, Sindh's worst enemies in the recent history, the cancer which is killing Sindh from inside, at a time when these perennial parasites have been completely exposed and isolated. When no other political force in the country is willing to talk to them, our elected leaders have chosen to lick their feet, just to please their common masters.

I am afraid we will not be able to survive as Sindhis until and unless we stop relying on these modern day Uncle Toms, and realize that our only salvation lies in believing in ourselves as Sindhis, and being sincere to no one else, except our Motherland. Our one and only slogan should be "Jeay Sindh", not "Jeay Any Individual", or "Family".

I would like to make it very clear that this is not meant to be an attack against any individual or an attempt to heart any-body's feelings. I fully realize that we all have been deeply hurt again and again over the last half a century, so the last thing I want to do is pour salt over our common wounds.

But it is high time that we start getting our heads out of the sand and start facing the harsh realities of life.

With due respect to all

Maqbool Halepoto MD
Arizona, USA