The chorus of disapproval for amending Indus River System Authority (IRSA) Act and constructing six new canals on the river reverberated at a seminar held to mark the founding day of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Hyderabad on Friday. The PPP's Sindh chapter President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and other senior leaders including former federal minister Moula Bux Chandio also emphasised over implementation of the 1991 Water Accord to ensure fair distribution of river water among the provinces.
"Water is a matter of life and death," said Khuhro, adding, with the support of people the PPP failed all recurrent attempts to construct the controversial Kalabagh Dam. "Today again we won't let anyone steal Sindh water."
He reminded the federal government of PML-N that being a tail-end province, Sindh has the first right on the Indus.
Khuhro said the Sindh Assembly has already passed a resolution against the said amendment in the IRSA act as well as against the new canals.
Chandio warned against executing plans to rob Sindh's water share and said, this was Nawaz Sharif who wanted to build Kalabagh Dam in the 1990s.
He contended that any conspiracy against Sindh amounted to a conspiracy against the federation. "Only one province (Punjab) is not Pakistan but together all the provinces form Pakistan."
The seminar passed resolutions, expressing a vow to stand in the way of all conspiracies to derail democracy and to subjugate the constitution and the parliament.
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