September 15, 2008	Monday	Ramazan 14, 1429

HYDERABAD, Sept 14: The Awami Tehrik on Sunday criticised cut in Sindh’s share in water by Irsa and said that it might lead to drought in the province and compel people to sell their land to multinational companies.

The party’s president Abdul Qadir Ranto said in a press statement that if Sindh was not provided its due share in water, it would make people starve.

He said that robberies had been committed over the Indus River waters for the past 150 years, which had been continuing even this day.

Without naming any, he said that those who championed Sindhis’ rights were witnessing the excesses as silent spectators and demanded that Sindh’s share in water be released forthwith, Chashma-Jehlum and Taunsa-Panjnad link canals be closed and the Greater Thal Canal project be shelved.

PPP-SB: Activists of the Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto held a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against delay in dispensation of justice in Mir Murtaza Bhutto murder case.

Party leaders Peeral Majidano advocate, Majeed Siyal and Shahab Shaikh said that Mir Murtaza Bhutto and his companions were murdered in cold blood 12 years ago but the case was still pending trial.

Ironically, the people involved in the case had been promoted, which in fact was murder of justice, they said.

They demanded that the proceedings of the case should be held on day-to-day basis in accordance with the orders of the Sindh High Court and the murderers should be awarded deterrent punishment.