12 January 2005	Wednesday	01 Zilhaj 1425

HYDERABAD, Jan 11: The Anti-Greater Thal Canal and Kalabagh Dam Action Committee has decided to prepare a documentary film on the area from the Guddu Barrage to downstream Kotri , including coastal land submerged by seawater, for presentation to foreign diplomats and financial organizations.

The committee took the decision at a meeting held at Gulistan-i-Sajjad here on Monday. Briefing journalists about the meeting, the convener of the committee and president of the Sindh People's Party Parliamentarians, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, said devastations brought about by water shortage in Sindh would be covered in the documentary.

He said a five-member media sub-committee had been constituted to prepare the documentary which would also be sent to the UN. He said foreign diplomats would be invited to seminars on the water issue to be held in Islamabad and Karachi after Moharram.

Mr Shah termed bifurcation of the Hyderabad district division of the entire province. He said there was no reason to bifurcate the district and the decision in this regard was based on mala fide intentions. He said constitutionally, the district could not be divided without approval of the district council.

Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo also opposed creation of new districts. Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Sardar Rahim also spoke on the occasion. Sindh Tarraqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F leader Khalid Mehmood Soomro, PPP MPAs Sassui Palijo, Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman, Zahid Bhurgari and Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi, Sindh National Front leader Wali Mohammad Jamali and others attended the meeting.