Marri welcomes shelving of KBD

KARACHI - Welcoming the shelving of Kala Bagh Dam project for good by the federal government, Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri says the decision would strengthen the federation. She said the PPP stand on Kalabagh Dam that it was unfeasible for the country, has been vindicated. Speaking at a news conference at Sindh Secretariat on Tuesday, she said that the move on Kalabagh Dam as announced by federal minister WAPDA Raja Pervaiz Ashraf would strengthen the federation because the issue had remained a bone of contention among the provinces for years. She said Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was against the project and had staged a sit-in at Kamo Shaheed, Ubaro on August 10, 1998 against the construction of Kalabagh Dam. She said that assemblies of three provinces had already rejected the project and the intelligentsia of Punjab had openly spoken against the construction of the Dam.