HYDERABAD, May 13: The central leader of Communist Party of Pakistan, Comrade Imdad Kazi, has said that the military government was trying to make a political issue out of the sensitive water problem and added that even in the middle of the month of May, cotton and rice crop could not be sown.

In a statement issued here on Monday, he said that the River Indus was flowing dry yet the construction of Thal canal was going on.

In his opinion the rulers wanted to divide public opinion by making the Thal canal an election issue.

He said on the one hand talks were going on to give more powers to provinces and on the other a decision had been taken to shift the archaeology department and library from Karachi to Lahore. He said that the provinces had no money even to pay salaries, whereas the centre is denying federating units of its due share.—Bureau