MULTAN, May 31: A one-day seminar to assess pros and cons of the Greater Thal Canal project will be held under the aegis of the Pakistan Network on Rivers, Dams and People (PNRDP) here on Sunday.

PNRDP spokesman Azhar Lashary told newsmen on Friday that the objective of the seminar was to present views of different stakeholders of the project before the media.

He said a majority of journalists had so far been given only the official perspective on the project which had become the most ‘controversial’ water issue in the country after the proposed Kalabagh Dam project.

The leaders of the mainstream political parties, including Sindhi and Seraiki nationalists, had also been invited to express their views, he said.

Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi of PPP, Dr Qadir Magsi of Jeay Sindh Tarraqi Passand Party (JSTPP), Taj Langah of Pakistan Seraiki Party (PSP), Hameed Asghar Shaheen of Seraiki Qaumi Movement (SQM), Abdul Majeed Kanju of Seraiki National Party (SNP), Qazi Israr of Sindhi Awami Tehreek, Mansoor Karim Sayal of Seraiki Qaumi Inqalabi Party (SQIP) and Sindhi journalists G N Mughal and Nazeer Memon are likely to speak on the occasion.