HYDERABAD, April 21: The Awami Tehrik has decided to hold a rally in Thatta on May 15 in protest against what it calls anti-Sindh projects, water shortage and alleged bifurcation of the Thatta district.

At the general council meeting of the party on Thursday, leaders also criticised price hike and rampant lawlessness in Sindh. Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo presided over the meeting.

The meeting said that peaceful demonstrations would be held in Sindh on April 28, 29 and 30 in protest against attacks on family members of Mr Palijo.

The meeting formed various committees to mobilise opinion for the Sukkur protest rally as per the decision of the anti-greater Thal canal and Kalabagh dam action committee.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Rasool Bux Palijo said that lawlessness and terrorist activities had attained alarming proportions and law-enforcement agencies had failed to maintain law and order.

He said that 40 million people of Sindh had been left at the mercy of terrorists, murderers and bandits.

The meeting adopted several resolutions demanding detailed and impartial inquiry into the April 11 Nishtar Park tragedy.

It demanded that the government should hand over power to the chief justice of Pakistan who should hold fresh elections under his personal supervision and transfer power to genuine representatives of the people.

In another resolution, it demanded that under 1940 resolution, all ministries should be given to provinces except two or three portfolios which the founder of the country Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had stipulated for the federal government.