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Haleem Adil slams PPP leadership over water crisis in Sindh

By Our Correspondent
June 14, 2021

SUKKUR: The opposition leader in Sindh Assembly and PTI MPA Haleem Adil Sheikh has blamed the PPP rulers in Sindh for persistent water shortages, accusing them mainly for unjust distribution of available water in various districts of the province.

Speaking to the media persons and party workers during his visit to Kohistan on Sunday, Haleem Adil Sheikh said both the chief minister Sindh and PPP MPA of the affected area, Malik Asad Sikandar, had done nothing for the one of the most backward areas of the province. He said instead of providing facilities, they had picked pockets of the residents of those areas as they had embezzled all the funds. Sheikh asked the people to raise their voice against the injustices being done by the PPP rulers for decades. He said there was no health facility for the people of Kohistan, who were in poverty.

Talking about the water crisis in various districts of Sindh, the PTI MPA claimed Prime Minister Imran Khan had taken notice of the issue and subsequently had asked officials of IRSA, Wapda and others departments to convene a meeting on May 27 with the officials of Punjab and Sindh to sort out the mechanism to overcome the water crisis. He said the prime minister had directed the authorities to ensure equal distribution of water among all the provinces but Sindh’s officials did not attend the meetings.

Haleem said PPP-led Sindh government, especially Minister for Irrigation, Suhail Anwar Siyal, deprived the farmers and small growers of Thatta, Sujawal, Umerkot, Badin, Nawabshah, Sanghar, Tharparkar, Mirpurkhas, Tando Mohammad Khan and other districts. He said the officials of both Irrigation Department and SIDA have been directed by the PPP leaders to divert the flows of water to the lands of influential people, associated with the PPP and cronies of Asif Ali Zardari. Sheikh said he had all the documents and letters of IRSA with regard to the distribution of water but the PPP leadership ran away to do dirty politics by creating an artificial water shortage in order to dupe the people.