HYDERABAD: Activists of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz-Riaz blocked a section of Hyderabad bypass in protest against price hike, influx of outsiders into Sindh, anti-Sindh projects and passage of bill for the regularisation of outsiders’ settlements here on Sunday.

The party chairman Riaz Chandio who led the protest told the protesters that if Pakistan Peoples Party government did not withdraw the bill passed by Sindh Assembly for regularisation slum areas in Karachi, then he would set up a three-day hunger striker camp on Aug 19 outside Karachi Press Club.

Even then, he said, if the anti-Sindh bill was not withdrawn, he would lead a protest outside Sindh Assembly and outside the residences’ of PPP parliamentarians.

He said that Punjab was stealing water of Sindh, and flows downstream Kotri barrage were not being released. Standing crops were drying in Sindh and agrarian economy had been destroyed, he said.

He said that Punjab was not adhering to the 1991 water accord.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2022