London, April 11 -- In a fiery address, MQM founder and leader Altaf Hussain vehemently opposed the construction of new canals from River Indus, branding the project as a calculated attempt to render Sindh barren and water-deprived. He claimed that the initiative, cloaked under the Green Pakistan Initiative, is, in fact, a "Green Punjab Project" designed to benefit Punjab at the devastating cost of Sindh's ecological and agricultural survival.

Hussain accused the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari--also the PPP Chairman--of approving the controversial project during a high-level meeting at Aiwan-e-Sadr. He condemned the PPP's public opposition as hypocritical, calling the party's protests a facade meant to mislead the people of Sind...