Punjab’s Water Flow to Canal Sparks Sindh’s Protest
The water being taken from the TP Link Canal despite Sindh’s objections, Sindh’s irrigation department wrote in the letter.
“The Punjab government has increased the 1000 cusecs of water taken last night to 3,800 cusecs from the Indus River,” the letter read.
“Punjab, instead of providing its share of water to the Jhelum-Chenab zone, is giving water from the Indus River,” according to the letter.
“The water has not been available in Sindh for its cotton and paddy crops,” the letter read. “Sindh is getting 4000 cusecs less water at Sukkur Barrage and 2300 cusecs less at Kotri Barrage,” the Sindh government’s letter said.
Provincial Minister Jam Khan Shoro has said that the federal government and the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) are treating Sindh with injustice. “Increasing water flow at Taunsa-Punjnad link canal has been an injustice. The leadership has been informed about this treatment from Punjab, the federal government, and the IRSA”.
This situation is creating restlessness in the people of Sindh, the irrigation minister added.
Sindh’s government had earlier in a letter to the IRSA had vehemently protested over opening of the Taunsa-Punjnad Link Canal when Sindh in downstream facing extreme shortage of the river water.
Sindh had demanded the authority to keep the link canal closed.
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