HYDERABAD, June 9: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz has finalized arrangements to launch a protest movement against the shortage of water in Sindh and the greater Thal canal project.

A spokesman for the Mahaz, Dr Zulfiqar Ali Panhwar, in a statement issued here on Sunday, said the party would stage a token hunger strike outside the press club on Monday.

The acting chairman of the party, Shafi Mohammad Karnani, will led the protest.

Meanwhile, Mr Karnani presided over a party meeting at the media centre on Sunday and constituted a committee to extend legal aid to activists who might be arrested during the movement. He condemned the continued imprisonment of party chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi and other activists.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Labour Party of Pakistan, Sindh chapter, Dost Mohammad Channa, has alleged that the rulers are constructing the greater Thal canal and other dams to destroy the agrarian economy of Sindh.

He was speaking at a seminar, jointly organized by the Labour Party, Kutcha Abadi and the Goth Regularization Forum, on the “Thal Canal and the Agriculture of Sindh” at Marui town here on Saturday.

He said conspiracies had been going on even before the creation of Pakistan to take away Indus waters, with a view to bringing more land of Punjab under plough. The Thal canal project is also a chain in the same conspiracy to irrigate the barren lands of Cholistan.