Differences on KBD - The News International

LAHORE: LHC Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Friday remarked the country was facing the worst crisis of water and electricity and if there were differences among the provinces on the construction of Kalabagh Dam, the federal government should raise the issue in the Council of Common Interest (CCI) and address their concerns.

The court granted another opportunity to the federal government to submit its reply on a petition seeking directions for the construction of the KBD to overcome the ongoing electricity crisis. The court adjourned the hearing till August 30.
Advocate Syed Feroze Shah Gillani filed the petition and quoted former caretaker chief minister of KP and Wapda ex-chairman Shamsul Mulk having said on October 9, 2010 the KBD was not an issue of Punjab alone but a matter of the country’s survival that was at stake due to fast depleting water resources.
The petitioner said the KP had suffered the most due to delay in construction of the KBD as, even after completion of the Bhasha Dam, the province would continue to be deprived of additional water because it would be 50 feet below D.I Khan where 8,00,000 acres of available agricultural land could not be irrigated economically. If the KBD was built water would be available for vast tracts of land in the KP at an affordable price.
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