Big rally staged on highway against canals project

HYDERABAD: A big protest rally against the canals project was organised by the Sindh River Bachao Tehreek Committee, starting from Poonam Chowk to Wadhu Wah, culminating in a sit-in on the National Highway leading to Sukkur.

Thousands of participants, who included a significant number of women, marched through Naseem Nagar Chowk to the highway, where they staged a sit-in on both sides and chanted slogans.

Members of various parties, which are part of the Sindh River Protection Committee, carried banners and placards opposing the canals project.

Political parties participating in the anti-canals rally included the Grand Democratic Alliance, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Jamaat-e-Islami, Qaumi Awami Tehreek, and Awami Tehreek.

Due to the protest rally and sit-in, traffic from Hyderabad to Karachi and Sukkur was disrupted, causing long queues of vehicles on the National Highway and the Motorway.

Separately, members of the transgender community also held a rally against the canals project, marching from the Old Campus to the Hyderabad Press Club.

A large number of transgender individuals from Hyderabad participated in the rally, raising slogans against the canals project.