SANGHAR, Dec 2: Over 100 tail-end farmers of the Dim Wah, Khadro irrigation sub-division, held a demonstration outside the press club here on Monday against shortage of irrigation water.
Speaking on the occasion, Jan Mohammad Behan, Ali Dino Nizamani, Abdul Karim, Comrade Laung Khaskheli and many others said that their lands were parched as no water had been released for the past two months to them.
Accusing the local landlords of stealing water with the help of the irrigation officials, they said that the landlords had deprived the tail-end farmers of their water share.
They said that the water, which had been released in the Dim Wah on Wednesday last, had not reached the tail end of the waterway till now.
They said that thousands of acres in Dehs 14, 15, 16 and Dim had been devastated by water shortage and most of the peasants had been forced to become daily-wage labourers.
KILLED: Unidentified assail-ants killed a landlord, Abdul Latif, in his guest room in Kaloo Punjabi village near Berani on Monday.
According to the police, the deceased was attacked by a blunt weapon while he was sleeping. His body was found by his son, Sajjad, who had gone to wake him up in the morning. The body was taken to a hospital.
