The Jamshoro police on Tuesday baton-charged and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the students
Jamshoro Sindh : The Jamshoro police on Tuesday baton-charged and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the students who were protesting against Cholistan canal and other water channels being created to irrigation millions of acres of Panjab lands with Indus water.
Following the police action, the protesters blocked a section of the Indus Highway. The students belonged to the Jeay Sindh Students Federation and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz Bashir and Arisar factions, besides others nationalist entities. The protest was also marked the struggle launched on March 4,1967 by students in Sindh.
Several hundred students, including girls, gathered at Zero Point of Sindh University where the police tried to prevent them from heading for the Indus Highway.
