KHAIRPUR, April 22: Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians president Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the PPP will continue its struggle against construction of the greater Thal canal and the Kalabagh dam.

Speaking to party workers here on Saturday, Mr Shah said that the farmers had been complaining against shortage of irrigation water in Sindh and the government had accepted the fact officially.

He said that about 80 per cent of the population depend on agriculture of the Kharif season which was sown during April and May. He said that mango orchards had been affected by virus attack which was also due to shortage of irrigation water.

He said that the anti-Kalabagh dam and the greater Thal canal rally would be held in Sukkur on May 6 which would show the government that the people of Sindh were against the construction of any dam on the Indus River.

He said that increase in prices of essential commodities had worried the people and they were committing suicides due to unemployment and inflation.

The PPP leader said that all opposition parties wanted political solutions to the problems in Waziristan and Balochistan but the government was bent upon to solve it at gunpoint.

On the occasion, he constituted an organizing committee comprising MNA Khursheed Ahmed Shah, MNA Jam Saifullah Dharejo, Jam Mehtab Dahar, Syed Amjad Shah Jilani and Mushtaq Ahmed Surhio to make the Sukkur rally a success.