NAWABSHAH, Jan 14: In the absence of an alternate arrangement for water supply during the annual canal closure, which runs from January 6 to 22, residents of the city have been facing and acute shortage of drinking water for a week.

People complained that they had not received water for a whole week despite making repeated complaints on telephone to taluka municipal administration (TMA).

No official of TMA and public health engineering department was available on Sunday for comments, except executive engineer of Nusrat irrigation division who said that all the canals including Gajra Wah, which supplied water to the city, had been closed for annual maintenance and would remain shut till January 22.

The department had forewarned all the departments concerned about the closure so that they could store drinking water during the closure period.

The affected people demanded that District Nazim Ms. Faryal Talpur and TMA Nawabshah should make alternate arrangements for supplying drinking water.

JI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Sindh Naib Ameer Dr. Mumtaz Ali Memon has said that the government has hatched a conspiracy to create rifts in the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA).

Some misunderstandings among the alliance members on minor issues were being blown out of proportion on media which would be settled amicably in the supreme council’s meeting, he said while addressing a party meeting at Islamic hall on Sunday.