HYDERABAD: Hunger strike

Published September 25, 2002

HYDERABAD, Sept 24: A group of activists of the Sindh Hari Committee (SHC) and the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) and growers of Massu sub-division staged a hunger strike outside the press club here on Tuesday.

They were protesting against the acute shortage of water in the Hyderabad Branch and continued rotation programme in Rahuki, Husri, Miano and Saeed Khan minors, taking off from the branch.

Talking to newsmen, SHC leader Mohib Ali Leghari said the Sindh governor and the irrigation minister had repeatedly asked irrigation officials to discontinue the rotation programme in Massu sub-division but they were violating these orders.

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