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.