HYDERABAD, May 25: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz and Muttahida Qaumi Movement will hold a seminar in Karachi on Wednesday on the subject: Thal Canal — A Matter Of Life and Death.

This was announced by the JSQM spokesman Dr Zulfiqar Panhwar here on Friday.

Besides JSQM and MQM leaders, he added, representatives of different political parties, writers, engineers, and irrigation experts would address the seminar.

The spokesman said that a movement against the Thal canal project will be launched after the seminar.

Meanwhile, Jeay Sindh Students Federation (JSSF) held a meeting here on Thursday to condemn the arrests of its leaders, Mir Mushtaq Soomro, Rustam Soomro, Momin Keerio and four other activists.

Addressing the meeting the chief organizer of the federation’s Hyderabad district, Suriyah Sindhi and other leaders, including Fayaz Mallah, Baghi Khalil and Javed Jamali, lashed out at the SHO of Tando Jam for registering ‘false’ FIRs against the student leaders.

They said that the JSSF leaders had launched a protest movement against the ‘anti-education policies’ of the vice chancellor of the Sindh Agriculture University, Tando Jam, which was their legal and democratic right.

They demanded an impartial inquiry against the SHO and warned of consequences unless ‘victimisation of the JSSF activists stopped.”