Sindh, Punjab embroiled in controversy over canals´ status amid looming water crisis
(WorldNews Pakistan)

HYDERABAD: Senate´s standing committee on water resources will recommend to the Council of Common Interests (CCI)-led committee on water issue to determine status of link canals branching off from the Indus and ascertain whether consent of lower riparian (Sindh) is mandatory to operate these canals, besides redefining criteria of Mangla Dam operation. `We have recommended to the standing committee on water resources to forward the points to the CCI committee, formed by prime minister,` Senator Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah told Dawn. `There are other points [in the set of recommendations] as well, he said. An Umerkot-based former Sindh chief minister, Mr Shah had signed the Water Apportionment...