KHAIRPUR, May 22: Farmers of Babarloi and Kola Jail minors took out a procession on Sunday in protest against the irrigation department. The protesters chanted slogans against irrigation officials and alleged that there was an artificial shortage of water in both the minors.
They said that farmers at the tail of the minors had not been provided water for a year. They said hundreds of farmers had been affected as cotton could not be cultivated because of water shortage.
Growers of Maher Shakh sub-minor of Mohabbat Wah, Kotdiji taluka , staged a protest demonstration against water shortage in Sehodaho area which, they said, had prevailed for the last five years.
The protesters led by Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz leader Ayub Lashir threatened to hold a sit-in on the National Highway if water supply up to the tail was not ensured within 10 days.
MMA: MNA Hafiz Hussain Ahmed of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal said on Sunday that the People’s Party Parliamentarians would deceive the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy.
Speaking at a press conference at Jamia Hamidia, he said the PPP was the main hurdle in the restoration of democracy as it did not participate in protest against President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s government.
He said the MMA did not accept Gen Musharraf as the constitutional president nor did it accept his dual offices.
He said that when President Musharraf left the post of army chief, Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed would also leave him.
In reply to a question, he said Islam did not allow women to come on roads.
He said that government was ruling at gunpoint and it wanted to resolve the Balochistan issue in the same manner.
SBC: Sindh Bar Council Vice-Chairperson Noor Naz Agha said on Saturday that baton-charge and torture on human rights activists, including Asma Jehangir, Iqbal Hyder and Hina Jilani, in Lahore was a violation of international laws.
She was speaking at a reception hosted by Khairpur District Nazim Nafisa Shah in honour of members and office-bearers of the SBC at the circuit house on Saturday. Sindh Advocate-General Anwar Mansoor was the chief guest.
