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HYDERABAD, March 11: The Labour Party of Pakistan (LPP), Sindh chapter, at a meeting held here on Sunday, said the military rulers had hatched conspiracies against the oppressed nations by launching controversial projects like the Thal canal.
Talking to newsmen after the meeting, the provincial general secretary of the party, Umer Baloch, chairman, Dost Mohammad Channa, and central senior vice chairman, Ghulam Akbar said the rulers by deciding to construct Thal canal have violated the 1945 water agreement under which Sindh had been given priority over the Indus river waters.
They said that as no water was being released below Kotri, 650,000 acres of mangroves, which was essential for fish breeding, had been destroyed.
They said the people of Sindh would be deprived even of drinking water if Thal canal was constructed.
They announced the party would hold demonstrations and seminars against the canal in Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Jacobabad and Karachi in April.
They said the LPP would also launch a struggle against privatization, downsizing, retrenchment and increasing American interference into the internal affairs of Pakistan.
They deplored workers were being retrenched from public and private sector organizations in Pakistan, especially in Sindh.
The LPP leaders said the party had demanded of the rulers to refuse to return foreign loans, appoint an interim council and elect a new constituent assembly.
They said that in order to impose hegemony over the world, America had declared the freedom movements of Kashmir and Palestine terrorist movements and it was supporting the Israeli aggression against Palestine and the Hindu fundamentalist government in India.
They said America wanted to establish its permanent basis in Philippine, Pakistan and South Korea.
The leftist leaders said that instead of reviving their economies, Pakistan and India had amassed forces on the borders and created many problems for the poor people by fuelling the war hysteria.
They said that the Pakistani rulers had made Pakistan an American colony by handing over its airports to America.
They announced a two-day conference would also be held on March 30 and 31 to discuss the national and international situation.
JSMM: The central committee of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) at a meeting held here on Sunday criticized the designs of Punjab to deprive Sindh of its due share of water through the construction of the Thal canal.
It also decided to participate in the protest walk to be organized by the Sindh National Council against the Thal canal on March 14 to mark the international day against big dams.
The meeting said that Punjab wanted to create anarchy, lawlessness and violence in Sindh by taking over the productive resources of the province.
It also expressed concern over the conspiracy to convert the Sindhi nation into a minority through the influx of outsiders into Sindh.
The meeting cautioned the Urdu and Sindhi speaking people against the ethnic riots which could be engineered by the state authorities to sabotage the movement against the Thal canal.
JSM-J: The Jeay Sindh Mahaz (Junejo group) has decided to hold a series of protest demonstrations throughout the province against the construction of the Thal canal and influx of the outsiders into Sindh.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the central committee of the party here on Monday which was presided over by JSM-J chief Abdul Khaliq Junejo.
The meeting was of the opinion that the construction of the Thal canal and Kalabagh dam on River Indus would only benefit Punjab.
It resolved to hold protest demonstrations in Dadu, Nawabshah, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur, Khairpur and Karachi on March 21, 27, April 7, 10, 13 and April 15 respectively.
