HYDERABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf`s central leadership has called for convening a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) urgently to settle the issue of plans for the construction of six canals on the Indus River after hearing out stakeholders`concerns.

The PTI wanted all stakeholders to sit together and work as per the accords already decided and denned under the Constitution, they said.

They were speaking at press briefings at the residences of PTI leader Mohsin Ghuman and Qaumi Awami Tehreek chairman AyazLatifPalijoonMonday.

PTI`s secretary general Salman Akram Raja said: `Indus gave birth to Indus civilisation.

It is wrong to divert the river`swaters, hence we will not allow theft of its water,` he declared.

He vowed to take Sindh onboard in all political struggles and lamented that decisions were being taken behind closed doors to benefit `some`, he said.

`After Balochistan, people are going missing in Punjab while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan are in flames,` he alleged.

He said that `some forces` had maintained a stranglehold over the system but people had seen through it now and they would soon break through it. PTI had reached out to nationalists to seek their help for Tehreek Tahaffuz Aain-i-Pakistan, he said.

Referring to ongoing agitation in Sindh against the six canals, he promised PTI would support every movement in Sindh. PTI was organising conferences onFeb 26 and 27 to have a national agenda, he said.

PTI leader Sardar Latif Khosa pledged to defeat all plans hatched by exploitative forces and condemned the arrest of GDA leader Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi.1ronically, the Constitution was buried by the people whose family had drafted it.

Former speaker of National Assembly, Asad Qaiser, slammed `conspiracy` to divert Indus` water and said stakeholders should think about Pakistan`s integrity which was at stake.

He told journalists later at the residence of Ayaz Latif Palijo, president of Qaumi Awami Tehreek, that PTI had done its job by writing letters to the establishment.

About inauguration of Cholistan project by Punjab chief minister without CCI`s approval, he said that all institutions needed to work within their mandate. `CCI meeting must be convened to hear concerns of stakeholders,` he said, adding PTI wanted all stakeholders towork together as per accords.

He said that the federal government was being run on PPP`s crutches. If the party pulled out the government would collapse hence PPP could not absolve itself of the responsibility over canals` issue, he said. `If PPP has any [genuine] reservations then it should leave the government over water issue,` he added.

Palijo informed the PTI leaders` delegation that 1940 Resolution, judiciary, 1973 Constitution and Indus River had kept Pakistan united. If these fundamentals were disturbed it would undermine larger interests of masses, he said.

He said that if extra-constitutional decisions were taken and if judiciary had come under pressure after the 26th Amendment then what other forums were left to turn to.

A new charter of democracy should be presented and the opposition leaders should take a firm stance on six canals, he said.