Agitation against 'massive corruption' in uplift scheme continues in Thull.

SUKKUR -- Jaddojehad Action Committee, a local alliance of political and civil society organisations which had come together for the resolution of the town's chronic civic issues, took out a big rally in Thull on Wednesday in protest against 'massive corruption' in drinking water scheme that had delayed its completion.

Leaders and activists of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Jamaat-i-Islami, Sindh UniAted Party, Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party, Qaumi Awami Tehreek and several other political, religious, nationalist, trade and civil society organisations participated in the day's protest, which was part of an ongoing movement against apparent rampant corruption in the town's development schemes.

The protesters braved scorching heat as they gathered at Jongal Mor from where they started the rally and moved towards the press club where they held a sit-in.

The leaders including SUP's Jagdesh Ahuja, JI's Hafiz Nasrullah Channa, Roshan Kunrani of QAT and others said that during 2-year-long rule of Pakistan Peoples Party, only leaders and elected representatives of the party including ministers, advisers and MPAs had seen progress in personal properties at the expense of common man.

They said that the ruling clique had eaten away public funds through corruption of billions of rupees like locusts which had wreaked havoc with Sindh's green fields. Rulers had snatched even the few facilities of education, health and water supply that they used to have in past and changed them into ruins, they said.

They demanded investigation into alleged Rs58 million corruption in the drinking water scheme, unearthing of all the characters involved in the crime against public and...