Kalabagh Dam will not be built
Staff Report
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain said on Monday that President General Pervez Musharraf has assured him that the Kalabagh Dam “will not be built”.
This is a great victory for the people of Sindh, Hussain claimed in front of a large gathering at the party’s Karachi headquarters.
He appreciated the president, prime minister, and Tariq Aziz, principal advisor to the president, for ‘patiently’ hearing out Sindh’s case, and accepting its logical stand on the 40-year-old problematic issue.
Hussain said that the success of Sindh was owed to the unity of the people and the courageous stand taken by the MQM, its workers, supporters and well-wishers. The MQM is the only political party in Pakistan that has solved this issue, he said. “The announcement about the Kalabagh dam is the first step towards the restoration of rights of Sindh,” he said and pledged to fight for the province’s rights in the future too.
He said that he had asked the president to implement the report on provincial autonomy of the committee comprising Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Syed Mushahid Hussain. “The president said that the committee’s work is very slow and that once the report is compiled he would issue orders to implement it immediately,” Hussain added.
The president informed Hussain that a few miscreants were involved in making Balochistan’s situation worse. “I have asked President Musharraf to catch such miscreants without troubling the entire population,” Hussain said.
The president has assured me that an inquiry would be made into the matter and the guilty would be punished, he added. The president has also agreed to meet a five-member team of the MQM to listen to Sindh’s problems and he would issue orders for their solution.
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