NAWABSHAH, April 12: Tail-end growers of Setharki minor demonstrated outside the press club and also observed a token hunger strike against the shortage of water on Thursday. Carrying placards and banners, and raising slogans against the SDO and surveyor of the Irrigation Department they informed the reporters that hundreds of acres were going barren due to acute water shortage.

This was the cotton sowing time, according to Allah Rakhio Unnar, Mir Hamza Brohi, Zaigham Unnar and Ghulam Hussain Dahri, but water scarcity was not letting them reap the benefit from this cash crop.

They further condemned the attitude of the SDO and surveyor who were demanding bribe to release the water which they were unable to afford.

They demanded the Sindh chief minister and the irrigation minister to take notice of the corrupt practices and direct the executive engineer Nusrat Irrigation Division to provide water to their fields and take action against such practices.

General Secretary PML-Q, Syed G.M. Shah assured the protesters in helping resolve their genuine problems.