Pakistan, March 11 -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday assured the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of addressing its concerns over the "controversial" project, regarding the plan to carve out more canals from the Indus River System.

The assurance came during an Iftar dinner hosted by the Prime Minister on March 10 in honor of a PPP delegation led by Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the PPP's media wing said in a statement.

The meeting comes hours after President Asif Ali Zardari's expressed strong reservations over the Indus canal project during a joint session of Parliament, cautioning that unilateral decisions on water distribution could undermine federal unity.

According to the statement, the PPP delegation also raised the issue...