BADIN, July 15: The National Alliance chief Farooq Leghari has said that the water crisis in Sindh has been created due to the non-judicious distribution of water.

He asked whether any province, without consent of the authorities concerned, could steal water when scientific methods of measuring water flow at different places were available.

Leghari was speaking at a public meeting in Vanai Sharif on Sunday during his whirlwind tour of lower Sindh. He arrived here with the leaders of the alliance, Sindh Democratic Alliance and others in connection with their pre-election mass contact campaign.

The former president said that unity, justice and equality among the four provinces were imperative for the integrity of the country and added that the people of every provinces deserve equal rights and respect for their feelings.

He said that Pakistan was a rich country in natural resources and other aspects but its economy was destroyed by the successive undemocratic rulers.

He said that during his presidency he proposed a plan to overcome water shortage, through which one million acres of land could be brought under cultivation, but the prime ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz sharif, did not implemented the project.

He claimed that he took a notice of a secret deal of leasing the Qadirpur gas field, Jacobabad, to a foreign country for five billion dollars against two billion dollars commission.

Leghari said that Nawaz Sharif sowed seeds of hatred between the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

Later he also spoke at another gathering in Shadi Abro village in Seraiki language.

The others who spoke on these occasions included Sindh local bodies minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Ameer Hassan Khoso, Mian Ajmal and others.