The Sindh United Party set up a hunger strike camp in front of the Mirpurkhas Press Club to protest against the construction of six canals to be drawn from the Indus River. The protest witnessed participation from various political and social leaders.
Addressing the protest camp, SUP leaders Aftab Qureshi, Raja Abdul Haq, and Lala Izhar Pathan expressed their concerns, accusing the federal government of pushing Sindh towards economic and agricultural destruction. They claimed that the ruling parties, including the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), had collectively decided to deprive the people of Sindh of their rights.
The party leaders vowed to resist the canal project with the same determination that prevented the construction of the Kalabagh Dam. ‘Our struggle to protect the resources of Sindh will continue until the plan to construct these canals is withdrawn,’ they stated. Party members, nationalists, lawyers, and civil society representatives stood in solidarity with the Sindh United Party during the protest.