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| April 17, 2003 | Thursday | Safar 14, 1424 |
PPP accuses Sindh govt of striking ‘covert’ deal: Flow of water downstream Kotri
LARKANA, April 16: President of the People’s Party parliamentarians, Sindh, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Wednesday accused the Sindh government of striking a clandestine agreement regarding release of water downstream Kotri Barrage.
He was talking with this correspondent at a reception hosted for the outgoing MBBS students of the Chandka Medical College.
Mr Khuhro said that formation of a two-member committee, comprising former secretaries, spoke volumes regarding the trust the Sindh government had in its sitting secretaries.
Criticizing the government, he said that it was ironic that the Sindh government did not know about the stand its own representatives had taken in the meeting of the Indus River System Authority, adding that how could the committee verify the same.
Mr Khuhro expressed the fear that the Singh government had not submitted a “strong-worded” recommendation to the federal government regarding the resolution of Sindh Assembly on the water issue, which had called for the immediate stoppage of work on Thal canal.
Condemning the Sindh government, he said that the provincial government was content with raising what he called catchy slogans regarding lifting of the ban on appointments, Khuhro said out of desperation the educated youth were committing suicide but the government was doing nothing practical in this regard as if it had nothing to do with it.
The PPP leader also criticized the government over the deteriorating law and order situation in Sindh, saying that the provincial government had not snapped out of its deep slumber despite targeted killings and kidnappings in Kashmor and Larkana and the attack on a police station in Sukkur.
He said the rice industry in Sindh had also been affected by the rise in the number of kidnappings and killings targeted against the rice mill owners.
Earlier, speaking on the occasion, Mr Khuhro termed the present government “unrepresentative” as according to him it comprised a large number of “turncoats, traitors and Lotas.
MPA Ayaz Soomro and president of the district Bar association MPA Dr Sohrab Sarki also spoke on the occasion.
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