KARACHI, Oct 16: Pakistan People’s Party (SB) chairperson Ghinva Bhutto has observed that peasants and workers, instead of striving for individual issues, should work out a joint strategy for launching a concerted struggle as they could get their rights only through collective efforts.

Ms Ghinva Bhutto gave this advice during her visit on Monday afternoon to the farmers who are staging hunger strike till death outside Karachi Press Club for their six-point demands. Monday was the 26th day when a 10-member delegation, which started from their protest at village Sobho Dero 16 days back reached on foot at the Karachi Press Club.

The main demands of the hunger striking farmers, according to Shahzad Hussain Bhagat, included release of irrigation water by closing illegal water courses and removal of water pumps from the Faiz canal by influential landlords of the area for cultivating their lands at the cost of tail end farmers. Their another important demand included desilting of canals.

Assuring them of her full support, she expressed surprise over attitude of the government as their issue was not a political one but a genuine demand to save their 50000 acres agriculture land.

She pointed out that feudals and landlords were people from establishment and they would not give them right. “Entire Sindh is facing acute problem of water shortage, seeds, fertiliser, security and law and order, as such they should widen their scope of struggle.