The four constituent Units, through
volutary participation, and as equal partners, must now form and co-exit as,
a CONFEDERATION where in the constituent States are
AUTONOMOUS and SOVEREIGN
and only such powers vest in the Federal entity,
as are expressly conferred on it.
A
CONFEDERATION is also an association of states, a union of
SOVEREIGN and
AUTONOMOUS states formed for, realising certain definite
objectives. The cheif features of a CONFEDERATION,
is as follows:
1. CONFEDERATING Units or
States retain their soverignty. There are as many States as there are
members.
2.
In a CONFEDERATION there is no common government.
3. The various States
make their own laws and administer them in their respective territories.
4. In CONFEDERATION the
States have choice to live or leave the Centre.
5. A CONFEDERATION is the
result of an rgreement (between related states), whereas a Federation is
based on a written constitution.
6. CONFEDERATING units
have an iternational status and can establish diplomatic relations with
other sovereign states. Besides, CONFEDERAL states are equal members of the
UN, while it is neither possible nor permitted in a federation.
7. If a war breaks out in a federation, it is an
international war whereas in the case of a Federation, it is termed as civil
war, as was the case of East Bengal in 1970-71.
8. In a CONFEDERATION the common organ established
deals with the governments of the units.
The Sindh National Front
S.N.F is being initiated
with a one point programe of bringing about a CONFEDERAL structure in
Pakistan, and nothing short of an unequivocal commitment for its attainment
will be acceptable to the smaller nationalities.
The CONFEDERATION shall consist of the four states of Sindhi, Baloch,
Pushtoon and Punjabi peoples. It shall be a republic representing their
unity and describe together under one flag.
In
CONFEDERATION the republic shall have authority over the
following subjects:
1. Defance
2. Foreign Affairs
3. Communications
4. Currency
5. Arbitration powers in disputes between the states
arising out of movement of goods and commodities, supplies, utilities and
services, and taxes thereon.
If two requirements are fulfilled, the
CONFEDERATION will come into existence, to wit:
1. Some states/Provinces voluntarily yoke themselves
into a state, under a centeral Authority, and
2. If the rights and
powers of the Units are distributed so evenly as to guarantee the autonomy
and sovereignty of the constituting states/provinces, making them free from
the tyranny or excessive rule of the centre or the Federal government.
The 'Lahore Resolution' of 1940 promised a CONFEDERAL
instead of a Federal State.
A strong Pakistan can
exist and prosper only at the cost of Provencial Autonomy, only in the shape
of CONFEDERATION.
It is clear that there is no way without
CONFEDERATION
to save the Pakistan from separation.
Now the unrest
of the small Provinces was complete and ripe for the slogan of
CONFEDERATION
ang now it is the one and only solution to the problems of Pakistan without CONFEDERATION no way to stop separation of the provinces from
Pakistan in the shape of "SINDHU DESH", "PASHTOONISTAN"
and the "GREATER BALUCHISTAN" etc. |
