HYDERABAD, June 16: The Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee at a meeting held here on Monday, resolved to continue struggle till cancellation of the controversial canal project.

It also approved a code of conduct under which it was unanimously decided that no component party would issue any controversial statement during the struggle against the Thal Canal.

The meeting also decided that no other slogans would be raised at Tuesday’s hunger strike camp except those against the greater Thal canal.

Those who attended the meeting included Maula Bux Chandio of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Abrar Qazi of the Awami Tehrik, Afzal Gujjar of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, Nazeer Memon of the Sindh Water Committee and Muzaffar Kalhoro of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party.

STPP: It was the duty of people of Sindh to join the struggle against the construction of greater Thal canal because it would destroy the economy of the province, said Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chief Dr Qadir Magsi.

He was speaking at a meeting of party activists from Hyderabad, Kotri, Jamshoro, Hala and Matiari at the Taraqqi Pasand House here on Monday.

He called upon the political activists, writers, intellectuals, social workers, lawyers and teachers of Hyderabad area to participate in a token hunger strike against Thal canal project on Tuesday (today) on the bed of the River Indus near Kotri.

He said that the hunger strike would be beginning of the movement against the canal project being launched by the Anti- Greater Thal Canal Action Committee, consisting almost all the political parties of Sindh.