Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan on Sunday said his party will never allow the construction of Kalabagh Dam, claiming people will take to the streets in protest if anyone tries to do so.
Addressing a ceremony in Uthmanzai, Charsadda to welcome FIA former director Zafrullah Khan and PPP Charsadda’s ex-President Naeem Umerzai into ANP’s fold, Asfandyar said Pakistan and Kalabagh Dam cannot go together. He responded to the statement of former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi which the latter gave at a gathering in Bahawalpur. Elahi had said he would convince Asfandyar to agree upon the construction of the dam. However, Asfandyar countered by saying, “We cannot drown our children for Punjab.”
Lashing out at Imran Khan, Asfandyar said the PTI chief considers himself to be pious and all others corrupt, which is why he keeps battering the media, Parliament and judiciary in his speeches.
The ANP chief also addressed a tribal jirga in Islamabad on Saturday. He talked about the targeted killing of Pukhtuns in K-P and Fata, saying his party has started a public campaign to stop the bloodshed in the region. He stressed peace cannot be restored without the help of tribal elders.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 24th, 2014.
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Mr Chachoo It is very simple that when you build a dame you will stop the flow of water and the water level will rise and ultimately will flow back and will submerge the land. So the whole of Peshawar valley will be converted into a water reservoir if the KB dame is build
ANP's total politics is based on the Hatred of Punjab and nothing else. Even ask a layman that how come a Dam that would be constructed in Punjab could drown the province of KP?. Any Scientific reasoning for it or just mere talk ?. KP is above the sea level and Punjab is lower than KP. Water cannot flow from lower grounds to upwards otherwise a Flood in Punjab will drown KP. Could someone explain that how Water can flow against the Gravity upwards?. Has anyone ever witnessed a flood that flows from lower Ground upwards towards the mountains?
Anyway for ANP and many Nationalists simple explanation based on fundamental physics is even an agenda of Punjab. Defying science for the sake of Politics is a norm of Sindhi and Pukhtoon nationalists.