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Members of District Bar Association are holding a protest rally against building new canals to draw additional water from the Indus River, at Jinnah Bagh in Larkana on Monday, April 28, 2025. — PPI
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Score: Lawyers in Sindh announced the end of all sit -in across the province on Tuesday, except that the protests in the Babalo bypass in Khairpur, the Council of Common Interests (CCI) rejected the controversial plan to build a new canal from the Indus River.
According to Geo News, the celebrations of happiness broke out on the Babalo bypass, where a sit -in was enrolled on its 12th day, as soon as the news about the decision to end the canal plan was broken. Demonstrators praised the development of Sindh as a victory for unity and flexibility.
The Action Committee of all Sindh lawyers announced that all other sites across the province would be called, and the court attacks would formally end from April 30. However, the Babalo Bypass sit -in will continue, additional demands are not yet being addressed.
Lawyer Sarfraz Metalo said that the Action Committee will meet with the government representatives of Sindh in the score today to emphasize the demands of corporate farming, the return of cases against the protesting lawyers, and the return of seized vehicles.
Metalo added that after the results of the meeting, a decision will be taken to end the Babalo sit -in.
Meanwhile, Karachi Bar President Aamir Nawaz Warich said that while Babarlo bypass sit -in is underway, traffic flow is no longer interrupted. He added that when the construction of the new canals has been canceled, corporate farming projects will also have to be eliminated.
Despite this decision, more than 40,000 vehicles are trapped in different places due to the previous blockade, which severely disrupts the flow of goods and equipment between Sindh and Punjab.
According to the traffic police, in Karachi, a protest on the link road connecting the National Highway to the Super Highway has also been concluded, according to the traffic police, allowing traffic to return to normal.
The protest has been going on for several days by lawyers and political figures, which has led to a major interruption in traffic.
Similarly, lawyers’ sit -in has also been concluded in Kandhkot, Ghotki, and other places, which has helped restore movement throughout the province.
The controversial canal project was rejected by CCI
The CCI, chaired by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, met a day earlier and rejected the federal government’s proposal to build new streams from the Indus River. The Council also terminated the Executive Committee to approve the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on February 7.
The federal government has promised to include all provincial governments for a long -term consensus on agricultural and water management policies.
The CCI also decided to return the IRSA’s January water availability certificate and demanded wider consultation with all stakeholders.
A new committee representing both the federal and provincial governments will be formed to recommend a 1991 water distribution agreement and the solution within the 2018 Water Policy framework.
Part of the Green Pakistan move, the canal project, after the increase in concern, gave rise to several weeks of protests in Sindh that the project would compromise on the province’s historic water rights under the 1991 agreement.
Political and nationalist parties, civil society organizations, and lawyers paralyze traffic on large highways, rallies and sit -ins on strategic points.
Despite the Prime Minister’s assurances that no project could move forward without a consensus, the protest remained unless the CCI’s formal decision remained.
The cost of Cholistan canals was estimated at Rs 211.4 billion, and the purpose was to bring thousands of acres of barren land under cultivation in the Cholistan desert of Punjab.
