LARKANA: While a group of lawyers continued its protest against the controversial six-canal project by observing a strike and attending the camp set up on the premises of the Singh High Court, Larkana court, a rally was also taken out by law students in the city on Thursday.

The protesting lawyers were led by Noordin Mahisar, Vice President of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, who also demanded repeal of the 26th Constitutional Amendment and Peca Act.

The students, who belonged to the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Law College, started their march from the college and assembled outside the local press club after passing through various thoroughfares. They were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans again the canals project.

Led by Mir Murtaza Umrani, Mohbbat Sangi, Basit Gadhi, Awais Bhutto and Atif Khichi, the protesters deplored the federal government for thrusting the project upon Sindh to render it dry.

This project would give birth to a host of serious issues linked with food security and create a drought-like situation in future, the leaders said. `We will not let this project to be executed,` they resolved.

The lawyers sitting in the protest camp criticised PPP for failing to maintain law and order despite ruling over Sindh for long.

They said that the federal authorities were now taking steps to rob Sindh of its water, snatch people`s freedom of expression and weaken the country`s judicial system.

SHCBA general secretary Asif Hussain Chandio, Sajid Mahisar, Ghulam Mohammed Barejo and other leaders also participated in the protest, which has been continuing for a week.