KARACHI, June 2: The Sindh National Front has condemned the extension of the Finance Commission Award for one more year as it would continue to deprive Sindh of its earnings which has already been deprived of its water, lands, businesses, jobs, etc.
This extension of the Award was gross injustice about which Sindh had been complaining continuously but no one had taken notice of the complaints. The SNF would, however, continue to take up the issue at all levels with the hope that good sense would prevail and Sindh was not pushed into abject poverty and despair, the SNF said.
The SNF, whose executive committee met here on Sunday under the chairmanship of its chairman, Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, reviewing the situation prevailing in the country, pointed out that after India took away three rivers of Punjab under the Indus Basin Treaty, Punjab replenished its entire loss of water from the water of the River Indus by building dams and link canals on the River. This turned over three million acres of fertile land in Sindh barren causing such losses as Pakistan could not sustain.
The SNF demanded that work on Thal Canal be stopped as it had been rejected by the people of smaller provinces because it would cause widespread damage not only to the agricultural system of the country but also to its solidarity.
