KHAIRPUR, Dec 19: The tail-end growers of the Faiz Wah staged a protest demonstration at Derb Mehar Shah on Thursday against the irrigation department for not providing them water since the last three years.

Speaking to the protesters, their representatives said that not a single drop of water had been provided to the tail-end growers of Faiz Wah since the last three years as a result of which thousands of acres of agricultural land had been destroyed.

They alleged that the officials of the irrigation department with the connivance of the growers at the head of Faiz Wah had tampered with the watercourses which resulted in shortage of water at the tail.

SUSPENDED: The DPO, Khairpur, Mohammad Afzal Malik, suspended the SHO, Gambat, Mohammad Ayub Mehar, and the SHO, Kotli, Mir Mehdi Raza, and transferred them to the police lines on Thursday for negligence in duty.