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Move on Kalabagh dam slammed: Govt fails to allay senators’ fears

By Raja Asghar

ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: The opposition launched a strong parliamentary offensive against the proposed Kalabagh dam on Wednesday at the start of a Senate debate.

The offensive was launched after a ruling party legislator’s move to put off discussion by offering an official briefing on the controversial project failed to gather much favour.

Awami National Party (ANP) leader Asfandyar Wali and two other opposition senators vowed to resist the construction of the dam at all costs calling the issue a battle for control over water of River Indus with serious implication for the future of Pakistan.

Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afgan Khan Niazi, though not a member of the upper house, tried to defend the project. He said that the Kalabagh dam was the best option in a series of big reservoirs.

The opposition’s onslaught came on the eve of an anti-dam rally to be held on Thursday at Jehangira in Nowshera district that critics say would be one of the fertile areas of the NWFP to be affected by water storage and logging resulting in the construction of Kalabagh dam.

Senator Asfandyar was also joined by ANP member Ilyas Ahmed Bilour from the NWFP and Raza Mohammad Raza of the Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party from Balochistan.

Mr Asfandyar said that the government’s insistence on the going ahead with the controversial project could encourage questions about the 1940 resolution passed by the then All-India Muslim League in Lahore for the creation of Pakistan as a separate Muslim homeland in the sub-continent. (huh? would he care to elaborate how?)

The ANP leader, who began his speech with an appeal for a cool-headed approach to the issue, saw the Kalabagh dam as a move designed to establish Punjab’s control over the Indus.

Mr Asfandyar described the project unsuitable even on technical grounds related to its cost, life, power generation and storage capacities and said the best option would be the Katzarah or Skardu dam in the Northern Areas that would produce more power than all other options put together and could last as long as a 1,000 years. Mr Niazi refuted the ANP leader’s arguments about the adverse effects of the Kalabagh dam such as the possible sinking of the NWFP towns of Nowshera and Jehangira.

He said the reservoir was needed to save water from going waste.

He regretted what he saw an attempt to paint Punjab as the culprit for political gains and asked opponents of the project not to put the future of the state at risk.

The minister, who is a member of the National Assembly from the Punjab’s Mianwali district where the dam is to be built over the Indus, said he would not mind even the merger of his district with the NWFP to entitle that province to receive electricity royalty of the project. “That will end the whole dispute,” he said.

Mr Niazi also rejected Mr Asfandyar’s fears that the dam would endanger country’s future and said: “Pakistan is

a reality and will remain a reality. The federation will remain and nobody will be able to harm it.”

In what was seen as move to delay the debate, Pakistan Muslim League chief whip Kamil Ali Agha had earlier proposed that officials of the Water and Power Development Authority should brief the house about plans for future dams like Kalabagh before such a discussion.

Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad endorsed the proposal, saying the government was ready to give such a briefing.

But opposition leader Raza Rabbani opposed the proposal and said that opposition senators already had sufficient knowledge of the issue and the ruling party could get briefings if they wanted.

The debate will resume when the house will meet at 3:30pm.

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Two water reports formally released: PM endorses 1991-accord

By Ahmed Hassan

ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday said Kalabagh was a natural location for the construction of a water reservoir, adding that a final decision about selection of one of the three proposed sites for undertaking first would be taken after completion of consultations with provinces and taking all stake-holders into confidence.

Mr Aziz was talking to journalists at the Prime Minister’s house after the government released on websites two of the three reports on the water issue, one on water reservoirs by a 9-member technical committee headed by A. G. N. Abbasi and the other on water requirements downstream Kotri by international experts.

He said that the process of consultations with political leaders was continuing and provincial experts on water reservoirs had been invited to the federal cabinet meeting on Saturday.

The premier said he had an aerial view of the proposed location of the Kalabagh dam during his visit to Chashma today and he was of the opinion that it was a natural location where water from four rivers — Indus, Kabul, Haro and Swan — converged and made a narrow water lane which seemed to be ideal for construction of a dam.

He said that the government had fulfilled the promise of making all the water reports public so that the people could go through them and form an opinion on the water reservoirs.

Senator Nisar Memon, the chairman of the parliamentary committee on water situation, would present his report in the Senate on Thursday, the premier said.

He said none of the nine members of Abbasi-led committee had opposed construction of dams as most of their objections related to technical aspects and priority. Answering a question, he said as far as the demand for implementation of 1991 water accord was concerned, the government had no objection.

To another query, premier Aziz said though foreign loaning agencies had shown interest in releasing funds for construction of dams, latest estimate of cost of dams was not available.

The prime minister said that Pakistan and China had agreed to further enhance their cooperation in nuclear power plants’ construction and Pakistan desired 600 MW power projects as against the two Chashma projects of 300 and 325 KW.

He said under the energy strategy, 8,800 MW nuclear power generation was the target and locations of new plants would be spread to those areas of the country, like Karachi, where power was in greater demand. (I would advise against building more nuclear power plants close to big cities liek Karachi. For obvious reasons.)

Answering yet another question, the prime minister rejected the notion that a military action was taking place in Balochistan and said that law enforcement agencies were taking action against miscreants in Kohlu, who had fired rockets when President Musharraf was on a visit to the area.

However, he said that the government believed in dialogue to resolve political issues and it would certainly like to settle the Balochistan dispute in an atmosphere of understanding.

When asked whether it was not failure of the Balochistan government in maintaining law and order that the federal government has to frequently rush in troops to initiate action, he said that it was a collective responsibility of the federal and provincial governments to take steps for restoration of peace when and where required.

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Water body report put on website

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: The government has released the report of the Technical Committee on Water Resources headed by A.N.G. Abbasi. The report, being serialized in Dawn, is available at the government website
www.pakistan.gov.pk.

Water and Power Secretary Ishfaq Mehmood announced at a press conference on Wednesday that the report had been put on the website on the directives of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

Mr Mehmood, however, refused to answer when it was suggested that the actual report had been diluted as only those points had been made public which endorsed the government’s stance on the construction of big water reservoirs and the distribution mechanism of the Indus River System Authority (Irsa).

The findings of studies on water flow below the Kotri Barrage, conducted by consultants Dr Fernando J Gonzalez, Dr Thinus Basson and Dr Bart Schultz, are also available on the website.

The studies have recommended a flow of 5,000 cusecs water below Kotri throughout the year in order to check seawater intrusion, meet the need for fisheries, maintain the river channel and for environmental sustainability.

The study calls for releasing downstream Kotri 0.3 million acre feet (MAF) water during Rabi season (October to March), more than that or at least same volume during Kharif season (April to September) and a total volume of 25 MAF water in flood season, expected to occur in every fifth year.

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KARACHI: Bhasha dam be built first, says Arbab

KARACHI, Dec 28: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that the provincial government agrees with President Musharraf’s ‘Water Vision 2006-2016’ and favours construction of big dams to meet shortage of water and power in the country, but it demands that Bhasha Dam be built first.

He was talking to a delegation of the Sindh Abadgar Board, Chamber of Agriculture, Sugarcane Growers Association and landowners which called on him at the CM’s House here on Wednesday.

Dr Arbab said the provincial government had serious reservations with regard to the construction of Kalabagh Dam and removal of the reservations was necessary.

He categorically stated that Sindh would never accept Kalabagh Dam with canals.

“A constitutional guarantee has to be given on water issue, and no amendment to it should be made without unanimous approval by the Sindh Assembly. Besides, judicial and administrative guarantees to the satisfaction of Sindh people were needed to be given,” he said.

He said his government had demanded that the 1991 accord be implemented in letter and spirit, telemetry system be put in order and its in-charge be appointed from Sindh. The Sindh government would never go against the interests of the province, he declared.—PPI

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Bhasha dam be built first, says House body: Punjab seeks simultaneous work on Kalabagh; report placed in Senate

By Our Staff Reporter

ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: The Parliamentary Committee on Water Resources (PCWR) has voiced unanimous support for Bhasha dam’s immediate construction even as its members from Punjab proposed that Kalabagh dam be simultaneously constructed with it.

The committee’s interim report, which was presented on the floor of the Senate on Thursday by Senator Nisar Memon, called for an “executive decision” on the issue of constructing large dams “based on various efforts towards (developing) consensus or a decision in the National Security Council (NSC) or the Council of Common Interests (CCI)”.

“All members agreed to Bhasha dam and its immediate construction but members from Punjab wanted it to be constructed simultaneously with Kalabagh (dam),” says the PCWR report.

The report notes that while committee members from the NWFP and Sindh had opposed Kalabagh dam, representatives from Balochistan backed its construction on the condition that consensus was reached among all the provinces.

The report recommends that all decisions (on water-related issues) be implemented with consensus. “Wherever consensus is achieved, it should be immediately implemented to create an environment of confidence and move forward for consensus on bigger issues,” it says.

“If despite all efforts, consensus is not arrived at, the government after required debate in the parliament and national media may take executive decisions or refer the matter to the NSC or the CCI for a final decision in the best interest of the country keeping in view the sensitivities involved and possible impact on national harmony,” it adds.

According to the report, major gaps exist between the provinces on water availability and large dam sites. It pointed to lack of consensus on the priority of dams and cited as proof the July 2004 meeting of the committee which was attended by all the four chief ministers.

The Sindh government’s position, as indicated in a March 2004 presentation to the PCWR, was that there was no water available for storage. But the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) insisted that 19.10 million acre feet (MAF) of water was available for future development.

The matter was taken up in the PCWR meeting and all the secretaries of provincial irrigation departments subscribed to the view that since availability of water for large storages was part of the technical committee’s terms of reference (ToRs) this technical subject should be left to it. Therefore, it was decided that no decision on water availability would be taken by the PCWR.

Still the PCWR succeeded in achieving consensus on a number of issues, some of which had remained unresolved for over 12 years. First, consensus reached between the provinces was on water studies. The provinces agreed to carry out studies on “minimal water escapages below Kotri to check sea water intrusion” and “water escapages downstream Kotri to address environmental concerns”.

Similarly, the provinces have also developed a consensus on conducting a “study on environmental concerns in all other areas of the country.”

According to the report, a consensus was also achieved in a meeting of the PCWR with chief ministers on “1991 Water Accord and Provincial Priority Projects”. There was an agreement among the chief ministers that large dams needed to be built in the country but with consensus.

All the provinces are unanimous in the view that the 1991 Water Accord is “sacrosanct and will be implemented in ‘toto’ without any reference to the 1994 Ministerial Decisions.” The chief ministers supported provincial priority projects and construction of small reservoirs in the provinces at a cost of Rs8.1 billion.

The PCWR has also recommended some “confidence building measures (CBMs) in order to “restore harmony and confidence between provinces”. The committee calls for “implementing the proposed 41 projects in Balochistan costing Rs56.5 billion to harness 6.54 MAF of flood run off to irrigate 1.32 million acres.”

It also stresses the need for easing the “apprehensions” of the people of the NWFP and Sindh on the Kalabagh dam project.

Moreover, the PCWR has recommended the construction of 20 small dams to provide drinking water in the water scarce areas of the NWFP, which will also irrigate some 79,250 acres of the province.

With respect to the CBMS for Sindh, the committee calls for “implementing the 1991 Water Accord, including 10-day statements vis-à-vis Greater Thal Canal, in letter and spirit.”

As far as Punjab is concerned, the report says, it is committed to the Kalabagh dam project.

The committee also points to the need for launching an awareness campaign on water issues through the media.

The PCWR was constituted by the National Assembly speaker through a notification on Oct 10, 2003, with Senator Nisar Memon from Sindh as its chairman. The committee’s members, all from the treasury benches, were Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli (NWFP), Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Mir Naseer Mengal (Balochistan), Senator Syed Dilwar Abbas (Punjab), MNA Syed Abdul Qadir Jamaluddin Al-Gillani (Balochistan), Federal Minister for Industries and Production Jahangir Tareen (Punjab), MNA Mohammad Ali Malkani (Sindh) and MNA Sher Akbar Khan (NWFP).

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Anti-dam rally blocks GT Road for 7 hours

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JEHANGIRA, Dec 29: An anti-Kalabagh dam rally here on Thursday declared the controversial project “disastrous” and warned that its construction would mark the beginning of the disintegration of the federation.

“This rally warns military rulers and their stakeholders in Punjab that the construction of the so-called Kalabagh dam would result in the federation falling apart,” a resolution unanimously adopted at the rally organized by the Awami National Party (ANP) said.

The rally asked international financial institutions not to lend money for a divisive project like Kalabagh dam.

Leaders from almost all the political parties, excluding the PML and PML-N, attended the public meeting held on the Grand Trunk Road, some 60km to the east of Peshawar.

The ruling MMA represented by JUI-F Senator Maulana Gul Naseeb and Jamaat-i-Islami MNA Usman advocate threw its weight behind opponents of the Kalabagh dam.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s brother Maulana Ata-ur-Rehman also attended the rally but did not make a speech.

The PPP (Sherpao), an ally of President Pervez Musharraf and the ruling PML (Q), was represented by former federal minister Mian Muzaffar Shah who minced no words in opposing the dam.

He warned that those in the government would have to make up their mind whether they stood by their own people.

Baloch nationalists were the most strident in their criticism of the military for what they called “denying smaller provinces their rights and imposing its decisions on them”.

The lone representative from Sindh was Awami Tehrik’s Abdul Qadir who said that his province would never agree to a project that was bound to transform it into a desert.

The participants of the rally dominated by ANP’s red-shirted workers and activists of the PPP-P, Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and the JUI, shouted anti-Musharraf and anti-Kalabagh dam slogans.

The GT Road remained blocked for almost seven hours and traffic between Peshawar and Islamabad was diverted through Tarbela and Haripur.

The resolution said that the proposed dam would submerge fertile lands of the NWFP, turn Sindh into a desert and destroy the Pat Feeder system in Balochistan.

It said the smaller provinces had been compelled to think that Gen Musharraf, in collaboration with Punjab, wanted to drown and destroy the three provinces.

It said that Musharraf’s argument that Punjab would topple any government that opposed the Kalabagh dam was a testimony that he wanted to pit federating units against each other.

“It proves that Punjab is Pakistan and Pakistan is Punjab,” the two-page resolution read and warned that President Musharraf and his associates would be squarely responsible for any harm done to the integrity of Pakistan.

“We want to live like brothers in Pakistan but not slaves,” the resolution concluded.

Another resolution called for an immediate end to the military operation in Balochistan and resolution of all issues through dialogue with its genuine leadership.

ANP’s president Asfandyar Wali Khan said that it was no longer a struggle for rights but a battle for survival.

“Pakistan and Kalabagh dam cannot co-exist,” he said and asked Punjab to make the choice. “You cannot have your cake and eat it too.”

He warned that any attempt to thrust a decision on smaller provinces could lead to a 1971-like situation. He also warned that those who disregarded the unanimous resolutions of the NWFP, Sindh and Balochistan assemblies on the issue of Kalabagh dam could prompt some people to question the 1946 Lahore Resolution that had led to the creation of Pakistan.

Asfandyar said that smaller provinces were being pushed to the wall and they had no option but to confront rather than make compromises over the issue.

He said the ANP was opposed to the disintegration of the country but if the establishment was bent upon drowning its people “then we will choose how we want to die”.

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KBD supporters fall in minority in Senate debate

By Raja Asghar

ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: Advocates of the proposed Kalabagh dam seemed isolated on Thursday on the second day of a Senate debate on the controversial project, which drew support from only a few ruling party back-benchers from Punjab and more criticism from opposition parties and even a government ally.

Even a preliminary report on water resources tabled by a parliamentary committee of only ruling coalition members was not of much comfort because it reported a consensus of the provincial chief ministers over the construction of the Bhasha dam in the Northern Areas rather than on Kalabagh, with only the Punjab chief minister seeking a simultaneous construction of both. (Anybody find a pattern here with Punjab?)

While all the four opposition senators who took part in the debate blasted the project on both political and technical grounds, the most prominent speaker from as many of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, Senator S.M. Zafar, did not utter a word in support of the Kalabagh dam and suggested an immediate revival of the Council of Common Interests to settle the row.

No support for the dam has so far come from any of the ruling party members from the smaller provinces of Sindh, the North West Frontier Province and Balochistan, whose assemblies have already passed resolutions against the dam proposed to be built over the River Indus in the Kalabagh area in the Punjab province.

While a faction of the Pakistan People’s Party (Patriots), led by Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, is reported to have joined the anti-Kalabagh movement in the NWFP, a back-bencher of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Abida Said, declared that her party, which is a partner in the ruling coalition, would not support a project not acceptable to smaller provinces.

Mr Zafar, a prominent jurist and former law minister, proposed giving a ‘constitutional mandate’ to the 1991 inter-provincial water apportionment accord by getting it approved by the CCI, saying it should settle the controversy over the construction of water reservoirs whereas a violation of the accord could be challenged before the Supreme Court.

Prof Khurshid Ahmed of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal said the country needed water reservoirs, but accused President Musharraf of trying to impose his choice of the project against the wishes of some provinces and warned that ‘Kalabagh dam could become a kala nag (black cobra) with serious consequences’ if that attitude did not change.

The presentation of the interim report of the eight-member parliamentary committee by its chairman Nisar A. Memon was also marked by controversy after the opposition said it had neither accepted the formation or the finding of the body which it said had no representation.

Opposition leader Raza Rabbani said the committee, nominated by the National Assembly speaker and later approved by a Senate resolution, was a ruling party committee rather than of parliament because no opposition member was named on it.

He described the formation of the committee by the lower house speaker as unconstitutional because, he said, only the CCI was competent to set up a parliamentary or other committee to make recommendations about inter-provincial water issues.

Mr Rabbani also put a question mark on the impartiality of Mr Memon because of his recent role as chief of the Senate standing committee on defence.

A committee meeting attended by nine members on December 16 had opposed planned purchase of some VVIP planes.

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WB, ADB warned against funding Kalabagh dam

ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: People affected by mega water projects from various parts of the country here on Thursday held a demonstration in front of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and warned them not to fund the Kalabagh Dam, saying it would disintegrate the country.

They blamed both the banks for not abiding by their own guidelines in implementing major projects in Pakistan which had not only damaged the environment but also displaced thousands of people.

The participants were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans like “WB the killer of poor”, “Down with dam”, “Musharraf must decide: Pakistan or dam”.

The protest was organized by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum and Actionaid.

The protesters handed over a memorandum first to the acting country director of the WB, Abid Hussain, and then to an official of the ADB.

They complained to the WB official that the bank was backing the government to pursue the project of mega water reservoirs and had assured it of funding the Kalabagh Dam despite the fact that it would displace more than 210,000 people and affect millions of others besides shaking the foundation of the federation.—Our Reporter

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Protest against Kalabagh dam continues

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JACOBABAD, Dec 29: Under the aegis of different political parties, a procession was taken out here on Thursday against the proposed construction of the Kalabagh dam and the army operation in Balochistan. The protesters, carrying banners and placards, raised slogans against the controversial water project and the Balochistan operation.

The procession, led by People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani, started from the Shaheed Allah Bux park and after marching through different roads of the town reached the Quetta road where the protesters staged a sit-in. Later, the protesters reached the press club.

Speaking on the occasion, union council nazims Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani, Israr Khan Jakhrani and Zulfiqar Lashari, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party leader Ali Mohammad, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam leader Dr A. G. Ansari and others said the Kalabagh project should be shelved and the operation in Balochistan stopped, otherwise national integrity would be endangered.

They also demanded an increase in paddy prices to enable growers to make both ends meet.

They gathering also passed resolutions against the Kalabagh dam and the Balochistan operation.

SEMINAR: Representatives of political and religious parties and social and trade organizations have opposed the Kalabagh dam and demanded that the government should shelve the project.

They were speaking at a seminar on “Pakistan or Kalabagh dam” organized by the Pakistan People’s Party-SB at the local press club.

PPP MNA Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani, Citizens Union president Mohammad Akram Abro, district PPP-SB organizer Nadeem Qureshi, Mohammad Younus Mahar, JUI leader Dr A. G. Ansari, UC nazim and STPP leader Ali Mohammad Lashari and JSQM leader Ghulam Sarwar Mastoi criticized the Kalabagh project.

They said the country was dismembered in 1971 due to wrong policies of then rulers and the present government was repeating the same mistakes. They held President Gen Pervez Musharraf and his government responsible for the situation.

They claimed that Sindh had right on 75 per cent water of the River Indus under the water agreement of 1945.

They also criticized the operation in Balochistan and demanded that the government should stop it forthwith.

NAWABSHAH: District Nazim Faryal Talpur has called upon the government to consider feelings of all four provinces, especially Sindh, before taking any decision on controversial Kalabagh dam project.

She was talking to reporters at the press club here on Thursday.

She said that her priorities were to supply clean water, basic health facilities and quality education to residents of Nawabshah.

The nazim said she was concerned about traffic problems in the city and would talk to the DPO about it.

Replying to a question about her relationship with the Haq Parast group, she said she wanted friendly relationship with them and had held talks with them.

She said coordination between the ADP and the HPG would solve problems of the people.

Earlier, the nazim congratulated newly-elected office-bearers of the Nawabshah press club.

MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio, District Naib Nazim Abdul Haq Jamali, Nawabshah taluka Naib Nazim Khan Bahadur Bhatti and People’s Lawyers Forum president Ziaul Hassan Lanjhar were present on the occasion.

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NA speaker favours reservoirs

By Our Correspondent

SIALKOT, Dec 30: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Ameer Husain has said the early construction of Kalabagh dam and other water reservoirs is in the national interest.

Addressing a big public meeting at Miani village here on Thursday night, he said the government would soon take the nation into confidence over the issue.

He said the government was making sincere efforts to raise the living standard of the people by providing them basic facilities.

He said the local body system was playing an instrumental role in resolving the people’s problems.

The speaker said the environment was conducive for foreign investment in Pakistan due to the policies and special packages of incentives for investors by the government. He said the government has put the country’s economy at the right direction.

Illegal CDs: The law-enforcement agencies in their efforts to contain software piracy in the country raided a computer hard disk loader and confiscated 1,231 illegal CDs and two computers loaded with the pirated software.

The software included illegal copies of adobe photo shop, Microsoft windows, Microsoft office, Symantec Norton utilities, adobe acrobat and Symantec Norton anti-virus, besides many other popular computer programmes valuing millions of rupees, said Business Software Alliance’s Middle East co-chairman Al Redha in a press statement on Friday.

He said: “The dealers and end-users should realize that the BSA in cooperation with the government and law-enforcement agencies is serious about stamping out piracy from the country.”

He said the BSA, through its educational campaigns, had been asking the businessmen to load licensed software, but many companies and individuals had still not heeded to the call.

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