The TP link canal was first opened on May 4 but was closed when Sindh’s member protested over its opening. APP/File
HYDERABAD: Punjab has reopened Taunsa-Panjnad link canal despite a vote-based decision against its opening and amidst water shortage that is persisting in Sindh ever-since the start of Kharif season.
The TP link canal was being provided 500 cusecs of water from Tuesday for which the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) had taken a decision by 3-1, opposing its opening.
An unpleasant incident is reported have occurred in Irsa’s Tuesday meeting in Islamabad where the Sindh member, Zahid Junejo, was allegedly insulted and humiliated by Irsa Chairman Rao Irshad Ali Khan after the former asked why the TP canal was opened despite a majority decision against its opening. Mr Junejo argued that Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan had
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Lifting water from Indus, free of cost, or using groundwater to cultivate the land they have encroached upon, these influential land grabbers literally mint money through forest land. AFP/File
MATIARI: A herd of cattle is lazily grazing vegetation on a pasture dotted with small ponds and pools of sparkling greenish blue water and encircled with different trees in a hamlet in the riverine area of Indus in Hala, Matiari district.
The picturesque landscape used to be hallmark of every temporary human settlement in the riverine area since time immemorial but it has not been so anymore as this natural beauty is fast giving way to large tracts of land cleared of trees and tamed for plantation.