SUKKUR, May 2: Around 200 activists of different political parties took out a motorcycle rally here on Tuesday against the Kalabagh dam and Thal canal. Activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, Awami Tehrik, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and Sindh National Front participated in the protest organised by the Anti-Thal Canal Action Committee.

PPP MPA Dr Nasrullah Baloch, Hizbullah Jakhro of the MMA and Nazir Soomro of the STPP led the rally on motorcycles from the Peoples Secretariat Bunder Road, Sukkur.

Protesters passed through the main roads of the city and reached at the press club where leaders addressed the protesting activists.

Speaking on occasion, the leaders said Sindhi people would never allow construction of any dam over the river Indus. They would sacrifice even their lives to stop it, they said.

They alleged that the Kalabagh dam and Thal canal had been planned to destroy the agricultural lands of the province, ignoring the resolutions passed by three provincial assemblies.

Condemning the recent increase in the petroleum prices, they said price hike, unemployment and lawlessness had made the lives of people miserable.