HYDERABAD, June 10: A large number of activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and the Jeay Sindh Students Federation (JSSF) staged a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Monday against the artificial shortage of water in Sindh, construction of the greater Thal canal and continued imprisonment of party chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi.

JSQM deputy general secretary Mohammad Rahimoon led the hunger strike. The general secretary of the party, Shabbir Jamali, and press secretary Dr Zulfiqar Panhwar also visited the hunger strikers’ camp.

Talking to journalists, Shabbir Jamali said the JSQM had already rejected the greater Thal canal and all dams which were proposed to be constructed on the River Indus.

They said if the Punjabi establishment and the federal government did not shelve anti-Sindh projects, the party would continue the struggle and spare no sacrifices to stop the construction of the Thal canal and other water projects.

They appealed to the Sindhi nation to join the protest against anti-Sindhi projects.