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MULTAN, Nov 6: Participants in a long march organised by the Kisan Board Pakistan have urged the government to immediately start building a dam at Kalabagh as delay was likely to cause a drought-like situation in the country.
The KBP caravan that started from Rajanpur is travelling throughout the province to create awareness among the masses about importance of Kalabagh dam and it arrived here on Saturday.The caravan, led by KBP Rajanpur district president Khwaja Mohsin Riaz, secretary-information Haji Muhammad Ramzan and Kalabagh Dam Movement president Engineer Mumtaz Ahmad Khan, was accorded a warm welcome by the workers of Jamaat-i-Islami, who showed their full support to the KBP's stance on the issue.
Speakers said they would not allow the rulers and Indian agents to make Pakistan Ethiopia or Somalia and they would force them to construct Kalabagh dam and other reservoirs to save the people of Pakistan from starvation.
They said electricity was being provided to consumers at Rs12 per unit but after the construction of Kalabagh dam, it would be available at cheapest price of Rs1.50 per unit. They demanded that a conference of engineers be convened because the construction of Kalabagh dam was purely a technical issue and not a political one. —Staff Correspondent
