March 3, 2002	Sunday	Zilhaj 18, 1422

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LARKANA, March 2: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), rejecting the construction of the greater Thal canal project, has announced to hold province-wide protests and rallies.

Talking to the workers at the annual convention of the JSQM, Larkana district, on Saturday, Muzaffar Sandano, who chaired the convention, said that sans seeking mandatory approval from the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) and considering Sindh’s objections, the construction of the Thal canal would ruin the fertile land of Sindh.

He said that it would irrigate 1.5 million acres of Punjab at the cost of devastating the already affected agriculture of Sindh.

In a resolution, the JSQM announced to boycott the ensuing general elections and said that it would not support alliances of the landlords and turncoats who had nothing to do with Sindh’s rights.

The convention demanded to release Bashir Khan Qureshi, central chairman of the JSQM, and other leaders and appealed to other groups to stand by the JSQM’s call to launch anti-Thal canal protests.

DISTRIBUTED: Larkana District Coordination Officer Mohammed Hashim Leghari on Saturday distributed tricycles amongst ten disable persons of Larkana and Dokri.

The DCO said that the Red Crescent Society, Larkana district, had donated the tricycles and added that the society would continue distributing such tricycles among the disables along with extending medical services through its dispensary in Shaikh Zayed colony.

Deedar Abbasi, the honorary secretary of the society, disclosed that around 150 patients get free consultation and medicines at the District Red Crescent Society’s hospital through OPD in Larkana and Mirokhan.