LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Professionals Forum chairperson Dr Yasmin Rashid has said water crisis is aggravating in the country but no successive government ever tried to resolve this matter.

Neither the incumbent government made any effort to resolve the water crisis nor constructed new dams to store water.

At an event organised in connection with the International Water Day on Wednesday, Dr Yasmin said the posterity would be facing severe water shortage issues. She said India was building dams on Pakistan rivers and committing water extremism, while the incumbent rulers were playing as a silent spectator.

She said the water shortage would grossly damage Pakistan’s agriculture and economy.

She said the water table in Pakistan had gone low and one reason for this situation was the deforestation.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, she said, the PTI had launched a Billion Tree Tsunami programme and had so far planted 800m trees. On the other hand, the Punjab government was only cutting trees.

ADJOURNMENT MOTION: PTI MPA Saadia Suhail Rana submitted on Wednesday a resolution to the Punjab Assembly regarding alleged embezzlement in IT labs of some 128 schools.

She claimed there was no computer equipment in 19 labs, while the company charged 10 times higher than the actual price of the equipment. She claimed the Lahore chief executive officer of the Education Authority released some Rs110m without getting complete delivery of equipment.

She claimed UPS and other computer equipment from 128 schools’ IT labs had either gone out-of-order or removed.

She said nobody in the department was monitoring about the procurement, installation and availability of the equipment.

Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2017