Chairman People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto has said, “building new canals on the Indus River is equal to playing with fire”.
He was informally talking to media amid grassroot protests and concerns in Sindh over a scheme of six canals on Indus including Cholistan Canal.
Bilawal Bhutto said that the people in Sindh have been furious over the canals’ issue, “The federal government has also been warned to avoid playing with fire”, he said.
“I had to talk over the canals’ issue in the National Assembly today but could not issue the policy statement owing to tragic incident in Baluchistan,” PPP chairman said.
Bilawal said no additional canal is acceptable from the Indus River. “Find some other way to irrigate barren lands,” he said.
“Me and my party have been aligned with the people of Sindh,” he reiterated.
He clarified that President Asif Ali Zardari didn’t approve the scheme of canals from Sindh River.
