SUKKUR, Dec 3: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz took out a procession and staged a sit-in here on Thursday to protest against the Kalabagh dam and influx of outsiders into the province.

The procession started from the Clock Tower, which, passing through main thoroughfares of the city, reached the press club, where protesters staged an hour-long sit-in.

Speaking to the protesters, JSM secretary-general Khan Mohammad Bhayo and others said that the people of Sindh had been deprived of their rights throughout the 57-year-old history of Pakistan. All institutions of the country, including the judiciary, administration and assemblies, were being controlled by the establishment based in a particular province, they added.

They asserted that those members of the Sindh assembly, who passed the resolution regarding issuance of national identity cards to immigrants, were traitors of Sindh which could never forgive them for what they had done. They also denounced the projects of the Kalabagh dam and greater Thal canal.