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| December 29, 2005 | Thursday | Ziqa’ad 26, 1426 |
Wapda team briefs MMA on dams
LAHORE, Dec 28: Wapda chairman Tariq Hameed along with a technical team gave a briefing to the MMA’s Punjab Council at Mansoora here on Wednesday as the alliance demanded setting up of the Council of Common Interests for taking a decision on water reservoirs.
MMA president Qazi Husain Ahmad was also present.
Alliance’s Punjab president Liaquat Baloch told reporters later that the Wapda team briefed them on feasibilities and capacities of three proposed dams —- Kalabagh, Bhasha and Akhori.
He said during the briefing the Wapda team declared that apprehensions of the other provinces could be removed.
The MMA, he said, demanded that the government should constitute the CCI to remove apprehensions of the other provinces besides taking parliament into confidence on the issue.
The water reservoirs and cheap electricity were urgent needs of the country but Gen Musharraf was hindering the development of a national consensus on the issue, he said, adding the alliance believed that unless Gen Musharraf was removed, national solidarity and unity could not be strengthened.
He said the MMA would hold a joint meeting of all opposition parties to share the information given by the Wapda team especially with the leaders from smaller provinces so that views of both sides could be heard for developing a national consensus on the issue.
On Balochistan problem, Mr Baloch said the MMA demanded immediate halt to the ongoing army operation and peaceful means to settle the issue.
He demanded that recommendations of the parliamentary committee on Balochistan should be implemented to peacefully end the present deadlock.
About the proposed mixed marathon in Lahore, he warned that the MMA would launch a protest campaign severer than those witnessed in the past.
Condemning arrests and cases against ulema, the MMA said expulsion of foreign students was a cruel step by the government.
The meeting rejected the show of hands method adopted for electing naib nazims for tehsil and district councils as mockery of democracy and violation of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court was urged to take a suo moto of it.
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