Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday cautioned the government that its "unilateral policies" were a source of a "grave strain" on the federation as he raised his party's concern about proposed new canals in Punjab.
He was addressing the joint session of the parliament at the beginning of the second parliamentary year and took the opportunity to highlight the issue of new canals, which the government was planning to develop with the support of the army and the provincial government of Punjab.
Sindh, being the lower riparian, opposed the idea and its various parties and groups are up in arms against the proposal and staging protests.
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