HYDERABAD: Hunger strike in protest against water projects
By Our Correspondent
HYDERABAD, April 4: A large number of Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party activists observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Sunday against the Kalabagh dam and Greater Thal canal projects.
The chairman of the party, Dr Qadir Magsi, and other leaders visited the hunger strike camp. Talking to journalists, Dr Magsi said that his party was a part and parcel of the Anti-Greater Thal Canal and Kalabagh Dam Action Committee.
He accused the government of giving bribe to the members of the parliament belonging to Sindh to muster their support for the construction of the controversial water projects.
He said that the people of Sindh would resist commissioning of the Kalabagh dam project as they had been protesting against construction of the Greater Thal canal. He opposed the proposal of formation of more districts, floated by Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, and warned that any decision in this regard could prove harmful to the solidarity of the country.
TEACHERS: The Sindh Teachers Action Committee has thanked Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Marwat for giving its leaders a patient hearing on reinstatement of 399 teachers whose services were terminated in 1998.
The chairman of the STAC, Qazi Aminuddin, in a statement issued here on Saturday, asked the sacked teachers to contact the action committee leaders in the offices of assistant district education officers (male) of Latifabad and City during office hours with relevant documents. He said that the education minister also promised to solve other problems of the teachers.
