Hyderabad:
After minimizing the nationalist political leaders of Sindh as entities without mandate, the political advisor of the Prime Minister, Rana Sanaullah, contacted two of them on Tuesday, asking for a meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the controversial project of channels.
Sanaullah called the president of Sindh United Party (SUP) Syed Zain Shah and Qaumi Awami Tehreek (Qat) President Ayaz Latif Palijo, as well as Jamiat Ulema-E-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chapter General Secretary General of the Allama Rashid Mehmood Soomro chapter.
Shah, who also directs a 17 -party guild entitled ‘Darya Bachayo Tehreek [save the river movement]’, He told Express PAkGazette that heals told him that the government wanted to find a mutually agreed solution to the ongoing confrontation.
“I told him that I will have to consult with all the allies, as well as with the representatives of the lawyers and farmers before responding to their invitation for the meeting,” he said. According to him, the details about the time and place of the meeting were not discussed. “I don’t know, but there may be some previous conditions for the meeting, which we will know after consulting all allies.”
Palijo frankly told the prime minister’s advisor that anger and generalized agitation existed in Sindh against the channels. “But the problem can be solved if the government immediately cancels the project.”
While responding to the invitation of the meeting, Palijo told Rana Sanoullah that the political parties that protested against the channels were making decisions after the consultation. “All political parties in Sindh agree that the government should withdraw from the project.”
There is a mass protest movement in the province against the six new channels that will be built in Indo. National and Indo roads have been blocked by sitting in more than a dozen locations, including four sitting by legal fraternity with their central camp in Babarloi bypass, Khairpur.
On Sunday and Monday, Rana Sana spoke with the senior minister of Sindh, Sharjeel Memon, and discussed the subject. Rana Sana said the federal government was open to conversations about the project to relieve Sindh’s concerns. Memon also agreed to the need for conversations on the subject.
On Tuesday, Sanomro spoke with Soomro and offered conversations with the controversy of Jui On the Canals. However, according to the sources, Soomro emphasized that the other political parties of the province, including nationalist parties, and lawyers must also be included in the consultation process.
Soomro impressed the prime minister’s advisor that work in the controversial channels must stop immediately before starting any conversation. He made it clear that Jui Sindh had a firm posture that there would be no commitment in Sindh’s water.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Rana Sanaullah said no one intended to steal Sindh’s water. He added that the Sindh government was ready for dialogue on the subject. “This matter has been brought to the notification of the Prime Minister, who will make an appropriate decision in this regard.
When commenting on a speech about the president of PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in a public demonstration in Sindh, in which he warned that the water distribution problem could endanger the federation, the advisor said that “many things are spoken in a passionate discourse”, but there should be limit to what was established.
(With inputs from our Islamabad correspondent)
