HYDERABAD: Awami Tehreek has claimed that northern districts of Sindh, especially Sukkur and Larkana divisions, have been handed over to bandits and that construction of Sindh barrage, Hasilpur barrage, Bhasha dam, Cholistan canal and similar water projects is killing Indus River.

The party’s central committee which met here on Sunday with its President Vasand Thari in the chair alledged that corporate farming was a conspiracy to snatch lands of Sindhis, Baloch, Saraikis and Pashtuns.

It noted that a struggle was needed against black laws such as Board of Investment Amendment Act 2023, 26th constitutional amendment and Peca.

It condemned killing of innocent people in Balochistan and assassination of ANP leader Khanzeb in Bajaur. It expressed sorrow over suicide of Fazila Laghari and her daughter Abham in Bajarani Laghari village near Moro and said that Sindh’s daughters were being forced to die by suicide thanks to anti-people policies of PPP government.

It accused PPP of turning institutions into dens of corruption, which eventually led to collapse of a building in Lyari. Suspension of a few officials could not bring justice to innocent lives lost, it said.

It said the Sindh government had turned into an anti-people mafia and police had become personal servants of PPP.

It said that dams were contributing to climate change in the region hence construction of dams should be stopped and required amount of water must be allowed to flow into sea to protect environment. Forests should be preserved and restored instead of cutting them down and giving land to corporate farming, it said.

The meeting termed MQM’s call for new provinces a conspiracy against the country and demanded they be prosecuted under Article 6 of Constitution for trying to divide Sindh.

Published in Dawn, July 14th, 2025