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Paying price of being a National project

It has been a time since Kalabagh Dam has been a controversial issue in the history of Pakistan, but the reality is that Kalabagh Dam upon completion is necessary for a prosperous Pakistan, but about time since 1985, dirty political game on this dam is being played on and on, making it Kalabagh Damn, instead of Dam.

Even according to the Indus Water Treaty between Pakistan and India, the project of Kalabagh Dam was to be started in 1980s and Diamir Bhasha Dam (citation required) was to be completed not later than 1990s, if both of these projects were completed on time, so it were beneficial in todays time when we're facing a debacle in power sources shortage. The feasibility report on Kalabagh Dam was completed years ago and till today, approximate 4 Billion Rupees expense have been recorded, but irony of fate, the politicians we've got have been responsible for creating problems for the country instead of creating new resources to capitalize on.

In current scenario, there's no electricity nor water nor anything in bread and butter for the common people. Good governance has been a sick old man's pathetic dream. The say they're the elected government but there's nothing of that sort when on ground. Every political party and elected government is instead of giving importance to the national interest, have been busy with their own personal agendas etc, resulting in increase in suicides, the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer, but these people don't care about it. When schools are treated as Marriage Bureaus, Marriage Halls, Cattle Farms so what you suppose from them?

WHAT THE OPPOSITION KALABAGH DAM LITERALLY THINKING?

KP Province thinks that the construction of KB Dam would endanger Nowshehra city, but in return the experts reduced the height of the dam from 925 feet to 912 feet, on the contrary, former care-taker Chief Minister of KP province, and former Chairman WAPDA Engineer Shams-ul-Mulk as majority of times gave lectures on the utilization of this project, and technically speaking the view points of Mr. Shams-ul-Mulk has weight as he hails from the KP province.

On the other hand, the feudals in the province of Sindh fear that the construction of this project will reduce their share of water and in result the required amount of sea water won't reach to the Arabian sea and it will affect the areas of Badin and Thatta in Sindh. The reality is that It'll affect those feudals who're responsible for land snatching and are able to use Indus River without any fear, now they starting to fear that having KB dam will deprive them of that water.

On the other hand, if we put National Interest into consideration, so we'll see that the main problem the nation is facing is that of power outage, specially since from 2007, industries have shifted themselves from Pakistan thanks to limitation in electricity and resulting in unemployment.

Till the time I am writing this, currently there is shortage in storing of water, due to which our agriculture sector is also affected. It must be noted that Quaid-e-Azam on the refer of Mianwali Hydal Project(which later transformed into KB Dam), approved this project.

It must be noted, how pathetic minds we've that such a project has been put into dust just to have our dirty and pathetic politics to have some weight with them.

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