PESHAWAR, Aug 25: The Pakistan People’s Party has condemned the resurrection of the Kalabagh dam issue by rulers and termed it a deliberate attempt to cause disunity among democratic forces.

Briefing newsmen during PPP provincial council’s meeting here on Sunday, PPP provincial chief Khwaja Mohammed Khan Hoti said that his party had been opposed to the construction of this controversial dam.

“Our party had tabled a resolution in the NWFP Assembly against the construction of the Kalabagh dam,” he added.

He said the rulers wanted to divide democratic forces by initiating a fresh debate on what he called a dead issue. Instead of seeking the opinion of the people, the government was trying to pit them against each other, he added.

Mr Hoti said the provincial council had decided to start the mass contact drive by the next month to mobilise the workers and the people on the LFO. The LFO was an attack on the 1973 Constitution which gave draconian powers to an individual, who held no constitutional, moral and legal power to run the country, he observed.

He said if the rulers tabled the LFO in parliament and it, by a two-thirds majority, approved it, the PPP would accept it with reservations.

“The LFO provides immunity to law-breakers, which is wrong and unacceptable to our party,” he said.

Mr Hoti said that the council members condemned the unethical and uncivilised attitude of federal ministers, who allegedly abused PPP MNA Naheed Khan during the National Assembly session and made a mockery of parliament.