SHIKARPUR, June 18: Activists of the Sindh People’s Students Federation observed a token hunger strike at the Lakhi Gate Tower here on Wednesday, demanding that the greater Thal canal project should be shelved.

Shikarpur SPSF general-secretary Zahid Mirani led the protest.

Jeay Sindh Mahaz-Z vice-chairman Agha Qamar Mushwani, Pakistan Muslim League-N district president Hadi Bux Malik, Amnesty International, Pakistan, secretary, Iqbal Detho, Shikarpur taluka Government Secondary Teachers Association president Syed Sajjad Hussain Shah and other political and social activists visited the hunger strike camp and expressed solidarity with the protesters.

NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION: Shikarpur Taluka Nazim Agha Amjadullah Khan has deplored the passage of no-confidence motion against him by the taluka council.

Talking to journalists at his office here on Tuesday night, Mr Amjad said he had refused to accept what he called illegal demands of former MPA Junaid Ahmad Soomro and local Sindh Democratic Alliance leaders.

He said he would challenge the no-confidence motion against him in the court of law.

Meanwhile, the former MPA and local SDA leaders denied the charges levelled against them by the taluka Nazim.