LHC remarks: Hoti speaks out on Kalabagh dam

K-P CM Hoti says issue surrounding the construction of the Kalabagh Dam was a matter of life and death for Pakhtuns.


Our Correspondent November 04, 2012

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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti said on Saturday that courts should not raise controversial issues, referring to the Kalabagh Dam dispute.


Addressing an Awami National Party (ANP) gathering at Daag Ismail Khel, he said the issue surrounding the construction of the Kalabagh Dam was a matter of life and death for Pakhtuns.

“We will never let the dam be constructed,” Hoti said, adding that any concerns about the power crisis could be dealt with by building the Munda and Bhasha dams instead.

He said that if the Munda Dam had been built, the 2010 floods could have been avoided.

Last week, the chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC),  while hearing a petition on the Kalabagh Dam, remarked that objections raised by Sindh and K-P over the construction of the dam were political.

Hoti said that he respected the decision of the courts but the LHC had created confusion about whether or not to construct the dam. He said it was ‘against the wishes of the whole nation.’

Published in The Express Tribune, November 4th, 2012.

 

COMMENTS (7)

S K Afridi | 11 years ago | Reply

Hoti should not brush aside the proposal of KBD, arbitrarily. It is a project of great national importance and it is the national duty of the politicians from all the provinces to sit down, put their heads together and develop national consensus.

Zalil Mullah | 11 years ago | Reply

Lahore high court will soon register itself with election commission of Pakistan for the upcoming elections as Kalabagh Justice Party.

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