KARACHI, Oct 27: Workers of the Pak Fauj Himayat Tehreek staged rallies outside the offices of different newspapers on Monday to express their support to President General Musharraf and the Kalabagh Dam project.

Chairman of the Tehreek Mushtaq Ahmad Qureshi, office-bearers Niaz Muhammad Hashmi and Abdus Sattar Haqqani and other leaders said that they had started a two-month campaign to highlight importance of the dam project through rallies and demonstrations.

The leaders urged the government not to take account of the opposition to the dam construction and go ahead with the project. They maintained that the dam would greatly benefit people as the power generation would enable the government to reduced power tariff.