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HYDERABAD, July 20: Leaders of the Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee left for Mithi here on Saturday in pursuit of their mass contact campaign to motivate the people to join the struggle against the project.
The leaders, including the convener of the action committee and president of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Sindh, Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) leader Maulana Siraj Ahmad Shah Amroti, Pakistan Muslim League-N’s Afzal Gujjar and Jamaat-i-Islami leader Abdul Waheed Qureshi, gathered at the residence of PPP leader Pir Noor Shah at the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society before starting their journey in a motorcade along with activists of their parties.
They were warmly received by the people in Tando Haider, Shaikh Bhirkio and other towns on their way to Mithi.
Speaking at roadside meetings, the leaders lashed out at the rulers for continuing with the Thal canal construction despite protests by the people of Sindh and the Sindh Assembly, which had also adopted a unanimous resolution against the project.
They pledged to continue their struggle as the Thal canal would destroy the economy of Sindh and convert fertile lands of the province into a desert. They also called upon the people to join the protest.
MIRPURKHAS: The anti-Thal canal caravan reached Digri to mobilize the people against the canal project.
Speaking at a gathering, Mr Khuhro, Mr Palijo, SNF secretary-general Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA Asadullah Bhutto and other leaders demanded that construction of the Thal canal should immediately be stopped as it would ruin Sindh’s agriculture.
MITHI: Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee leaders have described the controversial project as an attempt of vested interests to turn Sindh into a desert and demanded that the government should halt the work on the canal.
Speaking at a big public gathering after the arrival of the motorcade here on Saturday, Mr Khuhro, said the Thal canal would destroy rich agricultural lands of Sindh.
