LARKANA, Dec 20: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Bashir Qureshi has termed the strike against the Kalabagh dam a big success and said struggle against such proposals will continue.

Talking to Dawn by cell phone from an undisclosed place on Tuesday, Mr Qureshi said the strike call had received a tremendous response. He thanked people for keeping their businesses shut and appealed to them to support the JSQM in its struggle for rights of the province.

Mr Qureshi called the strike an open referendum against the Kalabagh dam, saying Sindhi people had voluntarily and profusely responded to the strike call.

Answering a question, he said his party would support all those who would oppose such projects.

He urged the government not to construct the Kalabagh dam because it had been rejected by three provincial assemblies.

He claimed that around 100 JSQM workers had been arrested in different parts of Sindh and added two workers had been injured in firing in Naushahro Feroze.

He said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement supported the JSQM’s stand against the dam but being in the government it did not openly participate in the strike. However, he said, localities dominated by Sindhis in Karachi had responded well to the strike call.