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Kalabagh Dam, Waiting for a Savior to Turn it into Reality

By Saad Farooq Awan • Dec 8th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Constructing a sheesha bar, dance bar, night club in any posh area of Pakistan is much easier than constructing any such thing that would definitely bring prosperity for community, whole province or the whole nation.
Same is the case with Kalabagh Dam project, which was designed in 1984, with the support of the United Nations Development [...]



Breaking the deadlock of Kalabagh Dam with wisdom

By Guest Blogger • Dec 5th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

The discussion of constructing of Kalabagh Dam has started again after the Lahore High Court directed the government to build it. Unfortunately in Pakistan, we got this naive rule that the province in which the dam is build would get its royalty. Now the problem with Kalabagh Dam is that it is built in city [...]



The Cunning Kaira Threatens SC to Mind His Own Business

By Saad Farooq Awan • Nov 3rd, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

Qamar Zaman Kaira, Information Minister of Pakistan on Thursday threatened Supreme Court that if the court carries on interfering in political matters like CNG pricing and the Kalabagh Dam issue, the government would also entrap them.
Well the cunning Kaira words clearly showed intentions behind his statement that how these issues (which are definitely in favor [...]



A Wonderland

By Shaheer Ullah Khan • Dec 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

Pakistan is a country on the Asian continent which possesses the ability to be called a wonderland, given that the place is utilized in a proper way. The inhabitants of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan live on massive reserves of mineral resources and other than that the geographical features and climatic conditions also contribute lavishly [...]



Kalabagh Dam or Nawab Kalabagh

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 17th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Hydropower is the most cheapest power source in the world and for Pakistan its feasibility is ideal. Just due to few politicians and their feudal hierarchy, Pakistan has been deprived of the power and is engulfed in the load shedding for many years now.
Successive governments have tried to resolve the issue by interim and temporary [...]



Kalabagh Dam, Need of Time

By Maria Sultan • May 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Almost everyone except ANP and couple of other small time groups have stressed the need for a consensus among the political forces on Kalabagh Dam to end the prevailing power crisis in the country. Now ANP has got its Pukhtoonkhwa and now it’s time that it makes a national sacrifice for the greater interest [...]



Why Not Kalabagh Dam?

By Guest Blogger • May 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The minister for water and power has said that the government cannot build Kalabagh dam. He did not say why. A minister must never talk in thin air, he must have cogent reasons for what he says. Does he think that Punjab will take more water from Kalabagh dam because the dam is located in [...]



Thar Coal Project Versus Kalabagh Dam in Pakistan

By Guest Blogger • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It is very strange to note that present Government of Pakistan is advocating for Air Polluting Thar Coal Project Versus Environmental Friendly Kalabagh Dam.

Kalabagh dam which will increase the water resources of the country is being opposed while [...]



Khwamkhwa or Pakhtunkhwa

By M Mirza • Apr 12th, 2010 • Category: Features


Irrigation sector reforms in Punjab

By Qudrat Ullah • Jan 30th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Keeping in view the changing patterns in water sector, growing needs of water utilization for food crops and the need to involve the farming community in the repairmen and maintenance of colossal irrigation infrastructure, the government of the Punjab embarked upon a major institutional reforms programme by involving decentralization and transformation of its colossal irrigation [...]