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HYDERABAD, Aug 4: The Sindh NGOs Federation staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Thursday to protest against denial of jobs to local people in various business enterprises.
Speaking on the occasion, Ilyas Khokhar, Sobia Khokhar, Naseem and Sehr said it was universal law to provide jobs to the local population on the priority basis in all the business enterprises and to spend one per cent of royalty on the welfare of people.
Contrary to this, they said, people from outside of Sindh are being imported and given jobs in multinational companies.
They condemned the introduction of water rotation programme during the flood season.
PROTEST: The Joint Action Committee for People’s Rights and tail-end farmers from Rahoki, Seri, Tando Mohammad Khan and Tando Bago waterways, including women, staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Thursday in protest against an acute shortage of water in tail-end areas.
Speaking on the occasion, Ilyas Khokhar, Zain Daudpoto, comrade Ramzan, Ghulam Hussain Malkani and Wahab Pindhrani said many villages had been submerged under the flood water due to flood in the Indus River but not a drop of water was available in tail-end areas despite orders of the Sindh chief minister.
They said the water rotation programme had been introduced in all water channels and crops on thousands of acres of land were being destroyed.
They said tail-end farmers had even been deprived of drinking water.
Meanwhile, a large number of farmers of Seri and Fazal Shakhs staged a demonstration against the acute shortage of water.
Manrak Khan, Aslam Rind, Raja Mushtaq and Ali Hassan Rind said not a drop of water had been released in Seri and Fazal Shakh for the last six years.
As a result, the livestock was dying and thousands of acres of land had been rendered barren.
They demanded that the rotation programme should be ended and water be released in above waterways and strict action should be taken against the irrigation officials for withholding water supply.
