LARK ANA: Members of the High Court Bar Associations (HCBAs) of Larkana and Mirpurkhas on Thursday demanded federal government haltplans for the construction of six `strategic` canals on Indus River and take back 26th Amendment and Peca Act.

Larkana HCBA observed token strike from 10.30am to 11.30am in a camp pitched near the bar`soffice where Athar Abbas Solangi, newly-elected president of HCBA, told this correspondent that the protest would continue if the government did not pay heed to their demands.

He termed the six canals a conspiracy aimed atdestroying fertile land of Sindh and demanded Sindh government should fight the case effectively. Peca Act was against freedom of expression, he said.

In Mirpurkhas, a meeting of HCBA managing committee condemned thecanals project, which jeopardised Sindh`s constitutional rights, environmental integrity and socio-economic stability. The meeting demanded the federalgovernment and Council of Common Interests immediately halt Green Pakistan initiative, and decided to observe token hunger strike every Friday.