KARACHI: Anti-Sindh projects be scrapped, says JSM
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, July 4: The Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) has demanded that all ‘anti-Sindh’ projects, like Kalabagh dam and Greater Thal Canal, be scraped and water released downstream Kotri Barrage.
The demand was contained in one of the resolutions adopted at itsmeeting held at the PMA House here on Friday. Chief of the Mahaz Abdul Khalique Junejo was in the chair.
In another resolutions, the JSM reiterated that Pakistan be declared ‘a multi-nation’ state, Sindh’s right on all its revenue-generating resources and produce be recognized, collection of taxes and recoveries be declared provincial prerogative, influx of aliens in Sindh be regulated in accordance with the universal laws, work on Lyari Expressway project be stopped forthwith till the introduction of a new plan to be prepared as per the aspirations of the local people.
Through yet another resolution, the Mahaz called for an end to retrenchment in the name of privatization. It also demanded restoration of fishing rights in the coastal areas to the local people.
Earlier, Dr Abdul Haye Baloch, Abdul Majid Kanju, Yusuf Masti Khan, Asghar Shaheen, M. B. Naqvi, Imdad Qazi, Ali Mukhtar Rizvi and several other leaders and intellectuals spoke at the meeting.
The JSM chief presented a view of the changes taking place in the global scenario.
