LARKANA: Larkana High Court Bar Association’s president Athar Abbas Solangi announced on Thursday cancelling the sit-in against construction of canals on Indus River the bar had decided to stage in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto on April 4 to coincide with Z.A. Bhutto’s anniversary.

Solangi said at a press conference at Larkana Press Club that there was no pressure on the bar to postpone the planned protest and the decision was taken in consultation with lawyers. The bar would now stage a sit-in on Indus Highway in Nasirabad on April 16, he said.

He urged Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to ask Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to cancel the decision on canals project and part ways with the PML-N government if it did not happen.

He called on PPP’s leadership and Sindh government to fight Sindh’s case sincerely to help end mounting unrest among lawyers. The PPP should rein in its ‘non-serious’ leaders who were adding salt to lawyers’ wounds with their statements, he said.

He warned the ‘anti-canals’ campaign could divert to PPP if it failed to get the canals project halted. There would be no compromise on canals issue and “we will go to any extent”, he said.

Larkana lawyers protest has entered 30th day and would continue.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2025