It was the biggest demonstration since the coup which brought the military to power. Political parties in Sind have long complained that water supplies are being held back upstream by Punjabis. Our demonstrations will continue until the issue is resolved, because Sind is not getting the water it needs. For a decade Karachi, the provincial capital, has been torn apart by bombings and street battles between factions of these groups and the police and army. After the army coup, things were quiet for a while, but this year the violence is back.
Economists believe that at least a third of the wheat crop has already been destroyed.
After four years of poor rainfall, the drought is expected to be one of the worst for decades. In neighbouring Afghanistan 500,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in search of food and water. The Pakistani regime has asked the meteorological of fice to examine the feasibility of melting the glaciers of the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas. Meanwhile, cloud seeding has already begun to try to produce rain.