HYDERABAD, July 9: If the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Sindh Democratic Alliance, Pakistan Muslim League (F) and leaders of the PML (Q), Sindh, are really against the Thal canal project, their parliamentarians should announce that they will withdraw support to the government if work on the disputed canal continues.
This was stated by Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chief Dr Qadir Magsi while talking to some delegations that called on him here on Wednesday.
He said that if MNAs dithered over their line of action on the Thal canal issue, it would be assumed that they were only paying lip service to the canal issue and deceiving the people of Sindh.
He expressed the hope that the Anti-Thal Canal Action Committee’s struggle against the canal project would succeed.
He said that as Sindh had been deprived of provincial autonomy and its economic resources had been usurped, the River Indus was the only guarantee for the survival of the Sindhi people. He added that the act of depriving Sindh of its due water share was a direct attack on the very existence of the Sindhi people.
SCHEMES: Due to lack of coordination between the district executive engineer and the taluka municipal staff, water supply and drainage schemes prepared at the taluka level will remain defective.
This was observed at a meeting of the All Pakistan Technical Draughtsmen Federation held here on Wednesday.
The chairman of the federation, Matloob Ahmed Chishti, told the meeting that without a check and balance system, tens of millions of rupees being spent on the schemes would go down the drain.
He said that if the public health engineering department, like other engineering departments, was established at district level, the money being spent on the schemes would not go waste.
BUSINESS COMMUNITY: The president, Anjuman-e-Tajiran, Sindh, Hyderabad zone, Haji Zaheeruddin, has expressed resolve to solve the problems of members of the business community without any discrimination.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, he said that the present office bearers were elected after adopting the proper procedure of elections.