islamabad - The Raghagan Small Dam in Bajuar Agency, would be constructed for irrigation land and water storage capacity.Talking to APP, General Manager, (Technical), Fata Development Authority told taht the project would be completed by December 2014. To a question, he said the Raghagan Small Dam ...

Writing in this column a few weeks back, this scribe tried to expose fabrications about the feasibility of Kalabagh Dam and the attempts made by blackmailers to cover up these lies. By quoting from the views and technical reports of national and international experts on dam construction, we had ...

Power House No. 3 of Satpara Dam Project with installed capacity of 2360 kilowatt (KW) Friday started power generation. The under-construction Power House No. 4 with an installed capacity of 1400 KW is also scheduled to go into operation by the end of this month.With completion of these two power ...

PTI Chairman Imran Khan has expressed boldly his intention to build Kalabagh Dam by convincing Sindh about its vital need. This is the first time that a political leader has openly supported Kalabagh Dam while the other parties either opposed it or had a gung-ho attitude to dish it for their policy ...

Leader of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that it is wrong to blame politicians for opposing the Kalabagh dam as the first opposition to its construction came from non-parties assemblies.In an interview‚ Asfandyar said that if WAPDA knew back as 1986 that Kalabagh had ...

LAHORE – The issue of Kalabagh dam came into limelight once again on Thursday, following the Lahore High Court’s verdict for its construction. The dam located in the Punjab on the Indus River – a multi-purpose hydroelectricity cum-irrigation project – that could have added ...

This is with reference to the open letter from Engr Suleiman Najib Khan. Reduction in river flows is as dangerous as reduction in reservoir capacity. In our total preoccupation with the first danger, we are totally ignoring the second danger. Other than one or two experts very few people know of ...

The Indo-US nexus has not turned the whole of Sindh and half of Punjab against Kalabagh dam. It is the unscrupulous political leaders who have played politics with a project of national importance who have sown the seeds of distrust in the minds of the people. To quote your editorial, ‘The ...

While the political parties are gearing up for the next elections and predicting sweeping the election, none is speaking about the most vital subject of Kalabagh dam which has become a tabooed word in Pakistan. Kalabagh dam is the key to economic prosperity of the country to solve the twin menace ...

MIRPUR (AJK) – A three-member delegation of the French development agency Agence Francaise de Development visited Munda dam project site, located 5 kilometers upstream of Munda Headworks in Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Area.The delegation was headed by Country Director Nicolas ...

A senior engineer Bashir M. Malik who worked as former Chief Technical Adviser of UN and World Bank has raised serious concerns on the safety of Bhasha dam in a section of national English Press. Amongst the serious concerns is the fact that the unprecedented height of 892 feet of the RCC dam poses ...

ISLAMABAD  – The Munda dam will store 1.29 million acre feet of water to irrigate more than 15,000 acres land and contribute 740 MW cheap electricity to the national grid. An official of Water and Power Ministry told APP on Tuesday that the reservoir will play a vital role in ...

This is in reference to letter of Engr. Khurshid Anwer (Nation 23rd Dec.).The author has rightly observed that Imran Khan on the subject of energy, only talks about Thar Coal. In fact Mr. Khan only knows of corruption and “Tsunami”. He is unable to comprehend the comparative cost of ...

LAHORE - Speaking in the context of external and internal conspiracies and pressures which were and are blocking the way of the country’s development, former minister and economist Sartaj Aziz has disclosed that the Americans in 1966 were not in  favour of Tarbela Dam.“An American ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - The Wapda and a private consultancy firm on Thursday signed a contract for consultancy of multifaceted Kurram Tangi Dam project, which would be built about nine miles upstream of Kurram Garhi headworks on River Kurram with an estimated cost of Rs 59.56 billion within four ...

PESHAWAR - The residents of Kohistan district will not allow execution of construction wok on Dasu Dam, if their demands allocation of 20 per cent of the royalty and free of cost electricity from Dasu Hydro Power Project in Kohistan are not met. The Dasu Hydropower Project is a run-of-river scheme ...

LAHORE Diamer-Bhasha Dam is a 'lifeline for the countrys faltering economy, would not only help meet that countrys future agriculture and power requirements but also ensure food and water security, thanks to the United States for backing the construction of the direly needed project. Water ...

LAHORE Renowned scientist Dr Samar Mubarakmand has held that after the completion of coal-fired power generation project, the cheap and sufficient power supply will be available in the country. Addressing the National Conference on Electric Power Deficit under the aegis of Institute of Electrical ...

LAHORE Yet another milestone achieved in the implementation of 969MW Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project (NJHP) as Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) successfully completed dam diversion tunnel of the project in record time, said a statement issued by the Wapda on Tuesday. The ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Friday said that foundation laying stone of Diamir Bhasha dam will be held on October 18. He said that it was a mega project and the government brought it in the Council of Common Interest (CCI) to take approval of all the stakeholders so that it could not be ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The government is all set to start the construction of multi-purpose Kurram Tangi dam as the feasibility study, detailed engineering design and tender documents of the project have already been completed. The dam to be constructed on Kurram River (FATA) would cost Rs.17,205 ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The water level in Mangla Dam has touched 1209.40 feet which is below only 0.60 feet from its maximum conservation level of 1210 feet while the Tarbela has already attained its conservation level of 1550 feet. According to the data released by Indus River System Authority (IRSA) ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The federal government has provided Rs3.9 billion to Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities to acquire land for construction of countrys most vital project- Diamer Bhasha dam. The process of acquisition of land is continuing and after its completion, work would start ...

Our Staff Reporter MIRPUR (AJK) - The District Administration Thursday categorically denied some electronic media reports about any breach in Mangla Dam at Chitterpari in Mirpur following torrential monsoon rains. Clarifying the reports, aired by some radio and TV channels Thursday morning, Mirpur ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Mirani Dam is a vital project for socio-economic uplift of the backward areas as it would boost agriculture, develop fisheries and livestock, help mitigate floods, and provide water for domestic use. While briefing the Senator, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch about the project, ...

PESHAWAR (APP) The Khyber Pakthunkhwa govt has decided to set up a fish hatchery for Tarbela Dam to meet high demands of meat and protect the endangered species. The hatchery will be set up over 100 kanal land aimed at bolstering the fishery sector in Khyber Pakthunkhwa, Environment Minister KPK, ...

LAHORE The WAPDA, with the financial support of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has completed the main dam of the Gomal Zam project in South Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) while the filling of the reservoir has also been started. The ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) Small Dam Organisation (SDO) has failed to construct Dadocha Dam after lapse of one decade as land grabbers and some influential housing societies purchased the land on the proposed site. In the year 2000, the Punjab government asked Small Dam Organization to prepare ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has released the first tranche amounting to US $ 20 million to the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority(WAPDA) for Gomal Zam Dam Project. The USAID had signed an agreement with WAPDA last month for providing US $ 40 million to ...

SALMAN ABDUHOO LAHORE The United States has responded positively to the request of the government for co-financing the construction of the Bhasha Dam, while modalities in this regard will be decided soon. Official sources in the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority told The Nation that ...