LARKANA: Akil Agani Loop Bund and Nusrat Loop Bund are in a dilapidated condition due to lack of supervision and insufficient repairs and corruption. If immediate measures are not taken, Larkana may sink.

This was stated in a statement issued by Syed Sirajul Oliya Rashdhi, President, Larkana Chamber of Agriculture, here on Monday. He urged PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and MPA Faryal Talpur to take urgent action and get properly repaired Indus River Bunds to save Larkana and other areas.

The statement said that a joint emergency meeting of Larkana Chamber of Agriculture and Sindh Hari Abadgar Board was held under the chairmanship of Syed Siraj Rashidi, in which Zulfikar Baloch, Secretary General of Hari Abadgar Board, specially participated in the meeting and pleaded with the federal and provincial governments that in the Indus River currently, more than 700,000 cusecs of flood water is passing through the Taunsa barrage in KPK and South Punjab, which will include millions of cusecs of rainwater from the Koh-e-Sulaiman mountain. Will also reach, which will affect Sindh on a large scale as it will pass through Sindh which will be left in the sea and can affect several parts of the province. He said that the irrigation department is still asleep.

The condition of Aqil Agani Loop Bund and Nusrat Loop Bund is very poor, the statement added. There are also cracks in Nusrat Loop Bund, which the local population tried to repair on a self-help basis and controlled presently but there is serious danger due to non-repair of Aqil Agani loop bund. A little negligence can lead to the sinking of Larkana, they warned.

We appeal to Chairman Bilawal Bhutto to supervise himself and save Larkana from being submerged by the Indus River, which has already been submerged by rain. The statement said that homeless people need help without any political, religious or linguistic discrimination. Hardly any rain in the history of Sindh has caused as much destruction to Sindh as this rain has caused. Millions of people of Sindh are homeless and they need serious practical help at this time. Since the flood of 2010, Sindh is suffering from the worst economic and political turmoil.

The population has exceeded many times more than before and there are no special measures for relief at the national and international level. Crores of homeless farmers of Sindh, whose crops have been destroyed, whose only source of income is farming, when these people will spread to the cities in search of livelihood, the cities will be burdened, social tragedies will be born and these farmers will be strangers in their own homeland then poverty, ignorance and outcome will be transferred from generation to generation and everyone will suffer the consequences, the statement added. The whole country will suffer the flood of 2022 for centuries.

The government should keep politics aside and help the helpless rain victims and flood victims without any political affiliation, religious or linguistic consideration, the statement added.