DADU, June 12: The leader of opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, has said that the province will sustain a loss of Rs70 billion due to the unjust National Finance Commission award.
The People's Party Parliamentarians leader said that his party would not accept the provincial and federal budgets if they were against the interest of the people.
He was talking to journalists here on Saturday outside the district court after obtaining a bail with 150 PPP workers in a road blockade case registered during by-election of the district naib nazim last year.
Mr Khuhro said that the Sindh government had completely failed to maintain law and order throughout the province and terrorist activities were increasing in Karachi day by day.
He said that changing chief minister of Sindh was not a solution to the problem and law and order situation would not improve even after the change.
He alleged that due to wrong policies of President General Pervez Musharraf, law and order situation in the entire country had worsened.
He said that PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto had sent a message that she would soon return and party workers should not commit self-immolation to pressure the government to permit her return.
FARMERS PROTEST: Hundreds of farmers held demonstrations in Mehar, Dadu, Khairpur Nathan Shah and Thariri Mohabbat on Saturday to protest against acute shortage of water in the water channels originating from the Rice and Dadu canals.
About 500 farmers took out a procession in Mehar to protest against shortage of water in Kakole Wah, Faridabad and Gul Mohammad Wahs.
They also held a protest demonstration outside the office of the SDO, irrigation department, and blocked the Indus Highway for three hours.
They alleged that the irrigation officials were selling water to influential landlords at the head of the Rice Canal as a result Kakole, Gul Mohammad and Faridabad Wahs had been deprived of water.
Led by Jamiat Ulema Pakistan's local leader Hafiz Mohammad Amin, 400 farmers held a demonstration in Khairpur Nathan Shah to protest against shortage of water in Tejaro, Kuddan and Kalaro water channels.
They said that paddy transplantation season had started but water was not being supplied to their waterways.
A procession was also taken out in Dadu to protest against shortage of water in Piaro Shakh.
The farmers also held a demonstration in Thariri Mohabbat town to protest against acute shortage of the water in their waterways.
CLASH: Five persons were injured in an armed clash between two groups over a street dispute in Gul Mohammad Gumb village, Johi taluka, on Friday.
Those injured - Photo, Azizullah, Haji, Qasim, Ahmed and Mumtaz Gumb - have been admitted to the Civil Hospital here in a serious condition.