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HYDERABAD, Sept 8: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party has opposed the proposed changes in the set-up of the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) and warned that the party and the people of Sindh will not remain silent if this conspiracy was implemented.
The STPP reaction came in a statement issued here on Saturday by its chairman, Dr Qadir Magsi.
He said that the federal ministry of water and power, which had always been preparing anti-Sindh projects, had recently submitted a summary to President Gen Pervez Musharraf to change the set-up of Irsa through amendments in the Irsa Act with a view to giving its entire control to the federal government.
Magsi said that since the Centre was controlled by Punjab therefore, the real objective of changing the Irsa set-up was to bring it directly under the control of Punjab.
He said that the worst affected province under the new Irsa set-up would be Sindh which had already been economically destroyed by water shortage.
He warned that if any amendments were made in the Irsa Act, the people of Sindh would resist the move with full force.
PPP: Over two dozen PPP activists of Sehrish Nagar unit, Qasimabad, here on Sunday staged a token hunger strike outside the local press club against rejection of the party chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s nomination papers.
They demanded that the papers of Ms Bhutto should be accepted.
LITERACY: The effective participation of the people was necessary to achieve the national objective of doubling the literacy rate by the year 2010, the DCO, Hyderabad, Mir Hussain Ali, said the other day.
He was addressing the participants of a literacy walk organized by the district education office, Hyderabad.
