Sindh's political movement against illegal canals on Indus

 The resistance emerging from Sindh against the expansion of canals and corporate farming, framed disingenuously as projects of "development" and "green initiatives," should not be misunderstood as a mere episode of temporary unrest. Rather, it is integrally connected to a long history of systematic appropriation and distortion, wherein Sindh’s natural resources have been unconstitutionally expropriated by the entrenched elites of Punjab. What we are witnessing is, in fact, a microcosm of Pakistan’s broader historical trajectory: a particular class — consolidating its economic franchises and political hegemony — replicates colonial modalities by dispossessing indigenous populations of their water, land, and economic autonomy. In this ongoing project of internal colonization, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), far from resisting, functions largely as an intermediary and beneficiary, facilitating settlements that betray the interests of the people it purports to represent.

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