Pakistan was already upset with India’s retaliatory action Operation Sindoor after the Pahalgam terror attack. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Sindh started burning due to the Cholistan Canal Project. People of Punjab and Sindh provinces became each other’s enemies. Highways were closed. Petrol pumps were looted.
The house of Minister of State for Home Affairs Ziaul Hassan Lanjar (Sindh home minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar) was burnt down and two people were killed. This was not a normal protest in Pakistan’s Sindh province, it was an open rebellion against Pakistan’s state policy.
Now the questions are what is the Cholistan Canal Project, why is this project being opposed, at what cost will the project be completed and what is Pakistan’s intention behind this project? Let us tell you the answers to all these questions
The Indus River is considered the lifeline of Pakistan. The Pakistan government and army have started the ‘Cholistan Canal Project’ to take the water of the Indus River to the Cholistan desert of Punjab so that the land of the Cholistan desert can be made cultivable. Under this project, six canals of 176 kilometres length are to be constructed.