SUKKUR, June 25: Awami Tehrik president Rasool Buksh Palijo has said the construction of the Thal canal will render Sindh’s lands barren and demanded the withdrawal of the project.

He was speaking to the Sukkur District Bar Association on Tuesday.

Mr Palijo said Sindh was not a party to the sale of three rivers in 1960, after which the Tarbela Dam was constructed.

He held the bureaucracy responsible for creating a water controversy between India and Pakistan in sixties, after which the world bank brokered an agreement between the two countries.

He said the Ayub’s government was an unrepresentative one and added that the Yahya, Bhutto, Zia, and the present Musharraf governments were all stooges of Punjab.

The AT chief said the 1940 resolution spoke of autonomous states and added that after a conspiracy, the resolution was subverted in 1946 and the word provinces was inserted in place of states.

He said all the provinces must have equal rights.

Mr Palijo also rejected the 1991 Water Accord as, he said, the then Jam Sadiq government was not a democratic government and did not represent Sindh and its people.

He accused Punjab of stealing Sindh’s water and said that 33,000 cusecs water was usurped from Sindh’s share through Chashma and Tounsa canals.

He urged the lawyers to raise and lead the people against the anti-people projects.

Three Killed: Three persons, two of them brothers, were killed by nine armed persons in the Kot Shahoo police station jurisdiction, Shikarpur district, on Tuesday.

The armed persons attacked Kot Shahoo village this morning and opened indiscriminate firing, killing Ghulam Ali and Musa and Ali Khan, the brothers.

The police said the attack was the result of matrimonial dispute between the two groups of Jatoi tribe.

No FIR was registered till filing of this report.

Goods confiscated: The legal advisory committee of the Trademark Registration, Karachi, confiscated goods worth millions of rupees from the two wholesale shops on the Nishter Road here on Tuesday.

The committee was accompanied by the Sukkur police.

The police said that fake items of international companies were recovered from these shops in huge quantity.

LOOTED: Some armed dacoits barged into the house of Mohammad Aslam in Gole Takri area here and looted cash, ornaments worth Rs100,000, and a licensed pistol.