MIRPURKHAS, March 8: Former federal minister Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur has termed the Thal Flood Water Canal Project a ‘project of national disintegration’ being imposed upon the people of Sindh by an unelected government.

The central executive committee member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said that people of Sindh were astonished at this decision whereby a project like Thal canal had been approved the work on which had already begun five months back, he said in statement on Friday.

Yousuf Talpur said the haste with which the project had been approved without preparing a feasibility report proved the vested interest in Rs 30.46 billion amount which would certainly end up in mammoth expenditures of 45 billion rupees over a period of seven years.

The PPP leader said a budget of 500,000 kilometres road construction was gulped by a single Punjab luxury of motorway. Now the funds of several thousand irrigation schemes of the country were being spilled to irrigate the barren lands in four Punjab districts.