MIRPURKHAS: Scores of villagers held a demonstration in Sindhri town on Thursday in protest against digging up of Mirpurkhas-Khipro road near Sabzal stop by a group of armed men to divert floodwaters into Kanghal Lake, which posed danger to their settlements.

The protesters raised slogans against government and expressed fear the floodwater would submerge their settlements and farmland.

They told media persons that Sindhri taluka was already worst affected by recent flood and there was no place left to drain out water. Kanghal Lake was in fact a large tract of barren land which had turned into a lake after rainwater coming from Sanghar and Nawabshah districts had accumulated in it hence it came to be lake.

They deplored that influential people had the Khipro-Mirpurkhas road dug up last midnight to divert floodwaters to this lake, which raised its level and inundated dozens of villages surrounding it.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2022