The Awami Tehreek held a 12-kilometre-long march in Pakistan’s Karachi on Sunday to hold a protest against the federal government’s plan to build six canals on the Indus River and the proposed amendments to the Indus River System Authority.
Carrying placards and banners, Awami Tareek members, including women and children, staged a march from Ghaghar Phatak to Gulshan-i-Hadeed. AT central president, Advocate Vasand Thari and vice
president, Hooralnisa Palijo led the march.
Addressing the participants of the march, Vasand Thari accused Pakistan Peoples Party leadership of approving the building of six canals, terming it a deliberate conspiracy to deprive Sindh of its water
resources.
He slammed PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for misleading people with false statements, while the PPP government-backed strategic canals project, corporate farming and other initiatives threatened the survival of Sindh. Thari warned that building new canals on the Indus River is more dangerous than the Kalabagh Dam.
Vasand Thari said that the Special Investment Facilitation Council had been made to sell the resources of Pakistan . He said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led coalition was
auctioning off national assets to protect elite interests.