Sindh will move all forums for due share of water, says Rahu.

BADIN -- Sindh Minister for Agriculture Mohammad Ismail Rahu on Sunday said the provincial government would take the issue of adequate water for Rabi crops to all available forums if its due share was denied.

Speaking to local reporters in his native town, Rahuki, the minister deplored the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) for allowing installation of a power plant on the Chashma-Jhelum link canal despite strong reservations expressed by Sindh. He also condemned the federal government for its 'complicity' in the matter.

The minister asked the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government to mend its ways and stop meting out step-motherly treatment with smaller federating units.

He told Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) workers, gathered around him, that there was no threat to the provincial government from PTI's moves to dislodge it. He said PTI did not have the mandate to rule over the province and deprive the people of Sindh of their legitimately elected leadership.

He said the federal government was doing all this to create unrest among the people of Sindh who were opposing all its negative decisions. Mr Rahu said that the Sindh government, despite limited resources at its disposal, was doing its best to...