DADU, June 5: The information secretary of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Punjab, MPA Farzana Raja has said that the Kalabagh or any other dam should not be built on the Indus river because three provincial assemblies have passed resolutions against them.

She was speaking at a press conference at the residence of PPP leader and former Sindh law minister Pir Mazharul Haq on Monday.

PPP (ladies wing) district president Kulsoom Chandio, general secretary Almas Panhwar and PPP district information secretary Abdul Haq Brohi were present on the occasion.

She said that the government was bent upon constructing dams on the Indus river against the wishes of the people of three province.

She said that the PPP Punjab was also against the construction of controversial water projects.

Ms Raja said that Pakistan was facing law and order and poverty problems.

She said that five federal ministers were involved in the sugar crisis in the country as they were owners of sugar mills and the government and the NAB had stopped investigations against them.

She said that influential landlords were stealing water from both sides of Indus River from Taunsa to Guddu barrage and Irsa had made public such report of water stealing.

She said that the NAB was made to defame PPP and added that its leaders were being politically victimised.

She said that small regional parties had lost their identity and united under the banner of PML-Q but the ARD and the PPP would continue their struggle for the restoration of democracy in the country.

She said that the charter of democracy was signed by PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and PML-N president Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif for the restoration of democracy in the country.

She said that the federal government had published wrong economic survey report showing incorrect figures, adding that poverty had increased and the people were living below the poverty line in the country.

She said that the government was victimising PPP leaders after signing of the charter of democracy and added that arrest warrants were issued against PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari by a local court of Islamabad which was another example of political victimisation.

Johi by-polls: Pakistan Muslim League MPA Ehsan Ali Jatoi has said that Sardar Chakar Khan Shahani will contest the by-election for PS-75, Johi, on the PML ticket.

Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, he announced that Chakar Khan Shahani was the PML candidate for the Sindh Assembly seat PS-75 as he was party ticket holder. Mr Shahani and taluka nazims of Johi and Dadu were present on the occasion.

Later, Dr Sajeela Leghari, wife of the late MPA Dr Manzoor Ahmed Leghari, arrived at the office of the returning officer in a caravan of vehicles and submitted her nomination paper for the Sindh Assembly seat PS-75, Johi.

She informed the returning officer that she was the PML ticket-holder for the by-election of PS-75, Johi.

Dr Sajeela showed a copy of the party ticket to newsmen at her residence in Dadu. She said her husband was an MPA from Johi and after his death it was her right to contest the by-election.