PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is expected to meet Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the canals issue, which has emerged as a bone of contention between the PPP and the PML-N, of which the prime minister is a leader, in recent months, leading to the fears that the PPP could even withdraw its support for the coalition government, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Monday.
Sources told 24News TV channel that the meeting, at which Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah would also be present, was likely to take place before April 25, the day the PPP would hold a rally in Sukkur on the issue.
They disclosed that the PPP would make it clear to the prime minister that it wanted the government to drop its plan to carve out canals from the River Indus.
Prime Minister Shehbaz, they informed, was also determined to address the grievances of the PPP.
The PPP has been holding public gatherings in Sindh to voice its concern over the building of canals, especially since the opposition parties in the province have made it clear that it is a matter of life and death for the people of the province, because if built, canals will turn their lands barren.
Reporter: Aajiz Jamali