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| March 18, 2002 | Monday | Muharram 3, 1423 |
HYDERABAD, March 17: The Water and Agriculture Conference, organized by the Awami Tehrik at Qasimabad on Sunday, condemned the tyrannical attitude of Punjab and the construction of the greater Thal canal.
The conference warned the people of Sindh against the sinister designs of the government which had allowed Punjab and the Wapda to initiate the Rs30 billion Thal canal project.
The conference observed that the project was being constructed at a time when the Sindh Government had officially announced that henceforth no water would be available in the canal except for drinking purpose.
The conference said that the Thal canal was illegal, unconstitutional and immoral which had made the people of Sindh battle for their survival.
It said that the greater Thal canal would irrigate two million acres of the Thal area and would turn Sindh into a desert.
The conference resolved that the people of Sindh were determined never to allow “the unholy design of the anti-Sindh and anti-Pakistan establishment to succeed”.
The conference demanded that the water distribution of the Indus River system between Sindh and Punjab should be settled through international arbitration under the aegis of the United Nations, the OIC and the Saarc countries’ panel.
It further demanded that the Wapda should be disbanded as it had become the agent and mouthpiece of the ruling circles of Punjab.<