LAHORE - President Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) Dr Murtaza Mughal said that delay in construction of Kalabagh dam is a crime as it will suspend economic revival of Pakistan.He was talking to Rehmat Khan Wardag, President Tehreek-e-Istaqlal on Sunday He said that it is now responsibility of the ...

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 ...

At a time when he should have rather spearheaded the campaign for Kalabagh Dam’s construction, -- all the more so in view of the LHC decision in its favour -- PML-N leader Mian Nawaz Sharif seems almost to have backed down from his earlier position. In a public gathering in a district of ...

LAHORE Father of Pakistan's nuclear programme and chief of Tehrik-e-Tahafuz Pakistan Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan on Saturday said that construction of Kalabagh Dam is necessary for strengthening the economy of the country. Talking to a private TV channel, Dr AQ Khan said construction of Kalabagh Dam was ...

Lahore - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said Wednesday that the construction of the Kalabagh Dam was not possible without the consent of the people of Sindh.Talking to the media after a meeting with PML-N representatives from Sindh, Nawaz said that without forming consensus among provinces, the ...

LAHORE - The rice millers and exporters, appreciating the Lahore High Court’s decision on Kalabagh Dam, has termed it inevitable owing to acute shortage of energy, fast depleting irrigation water resources and frequent occurrence of floods.Acute electricity and gas shortage has not only ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said construction of Kalabagh Dam is a political issue and judiciary should not give verdicts on the issue.Speaking at a function in Wazirabad on Saturday he said that the government fully respects the judiciary as independent ...

LAHORE-It may be news for many in Pakistan but it is a fact that all the federating units of the country had agreed on the need of building water reservoirs on the Indus and other rivers in the water accord of 1991.In paragraph 6 of the ‘Apportionment of Water Agreement, 1991’, the ...

It must be obvious to the ruling party that Kalabagh Dam (KBD) is the most viable solution to the problem of water and power shortage. What has paralysed the government into inaction is the fear of a strong reaction from Sindh and many parts of Punjab. These people believe what their leaders have ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Assembly on Saturday approved Rs57.14billion supplementary budget for the outgoing fiscal year, though the focus of discussion remained the Kalabagh Dam (KBD) in the wake of unprecedented loadshedding in Punjab.Forty-two demands for grants were also approved in the ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Punjab Forum on Friday said it is difficult for the country to survive without Kalabagh Dam. “The existing dams are not enough to save country from becoming desert while the Diamer-Bhasha Dam will take almost a decade to start power generation,” it said. ...

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 ...

FAISALABAD - The power generating from Tarbela Dam costs only 49 paisa (Re 0.49) per unit while the electricity being added from the Independent Power Plants (IPPs) costs Rs 8 and the power prices would touch the limit of Rs 15 per unit because of rental power plants. It was stated by former Wapda ...

LAHORE - Former Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Dr Salman Shah said the PPP and ANP were opposing the construction of Kalabagh Dam. Speaking at the Pre-Budget Seminar of The Nation in Lahore on Saturday Dr Shah said the KBD cannot be built until and unless the PPP and ANP stop opposing this mega ...

Punjab Senior Minister for Irrigation, Raja Riaz Thursday said many small and medium sized dams will be built from the allocation made for shelved Kalabagh dam to overcome power crisis in the country. Talking to media during the luncheon hosted by President Pakistan People's Party Lahore, Haji ...

LAHORE-The govt has finally decided to shelve the controversial Kalabagh Dam project forever owing to the tremendous objection of the different stake-holders. This was stated by Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf here on Monday. Addressing a crowded Press conference at ...