Minister orders water supply to tail-end areas
Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza on Monday warned the officials of irrigation department of severe action if they failed to supply water to the tail-end of all the canals of Badin district within a week. The minister said at a meeting with irrigation and revenue officers at Darbar Hall that the negligence of irrigation officials had caused water shortage in tail-end areas. He said that the irrigation officials who still harboured sympathies with former rulers had created artificial scarcity of water in the district. They would not be spared, he warned.