PTI criticises Khursheed for 'giving away Sindh's water to Punjab'.

SUKKUR -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's provincial chapter has severely criticised Federal Minister for Water Resources Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah for giving away 30pc of Sindh's share in Indus water to Panjab in a crisis situation.

Sindh PTI senior vice president Syed Tahir Hussain Shah said on Saturday that all stakeholders must take a serious notice of the minister's statement on the floor of the upper house of parliament.

Tahir Shah said that the minister also repeated his confession while speaking to the media after the Senate session.

He said PTI was seriously concerned over his statement which proved that the persisting water crisis in Sindh was caused by Pakistan Peoples Party by allowing Punjab to take away 30pc of its [Sindh's] share in Indus water.

Tahir Shah pointed out that Sindh's agriculture sector, which had already been devastated owing to PPP's flawed policies, was on the verge of destruction due to an acute shortage of water and certain other issues.

He referred to media reports that PPP's influential figures had long been drawing excessive water from Indus and its canals for their own lands thus depriving other landowners of their due share.

Small growers, peasants, tillers and farmers had been crying for water but this unfair distribution of water had...