The Cholistan Canals issue has become a point of difference between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)- led Sindh government and the Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led federal government.
Protests against the Indus canal project continue to block major highways in Sindh, paralysing goods transport, stranding thousands of trucks, halting manufacturing, and raising fears of a severe port congestion crisis despite government efforts to resolve the standoff.
A sit-in by lawyers at Babarloi Bypass in Khairpur has entered its third day, with a shutter-down strike being observed across various cities in Sindh.
The protest, which took place in Jamshoro on Tuesday, was met with brutal state repression by Pakistani authorities, including baton charges, shelling, and open firing on the students.
Mahila Congress workers on Saturday held a protest march to Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation over the death of sanitation worker Christopher Joy, who died while cleaning the Amayizhanjan canal in Thampanoor, Thiruvananthapuram.