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Fishermen cast their nets into the Indus River in Pakistan on March 15. © Reuters
ADNAN AAMIR
ISLAMABAD -- Growing concerns over a potential water crisis from the building of a new canal have sparked opposition across Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, with the local assembly passing a resolution against it in mid-March. This has raised fear that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which has Sindh as its stronghold, could leave the governing coalition of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif over the issue.
In February, the federal government launched an ambitious agriculture project, the Green Pakistan Initiative, to enhance food security through corporate farming, with the Pakistan army taking the lead.