KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has demanded that the federal government immediately announce reversal of its controversial decision to construct new canals from the Indus River.

In a statement issued on Sunday, PPP’s Sindh chapter president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro asked: “If there is no additional water, from where will the water be brought to the new canals?”

He added that already Sindh was not being given its due share of water under the 1991 Water Accord.

Talking about the ongoing gas crisis in the province, he said the severe gas loadshedding and low gas pressure in Sindh was a violation of Article 158 of the Constitution.

He also rejected the decision of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority to increase gas prices by 25 per cent, calling on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to review the decision.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2024