HYDERABAD, June 4: The president of Awami Tehrik, Rasool Bux Palejo, has categorically denied that he has anything to do with the ‘Kalabagh dam project working group’ set up to evolve a consensus.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that reports published in this regard on Monday had no basis.

“I have absolutely nothing to do with the dead issue of Kalabagh dam project which stands rejected after decades-long debates through out the country during more than one government tenure,” Palejo asserted.

He said that his meeting with the president referred to the broad and fundamental question concerned with Sindh-Punjab water dispute covering all the aspects of a fair distribution of rivers and reservoirs of the country among the provinces especially between the two main provinces affected by the dispute.

Palejo said: “Such efforts to renew the old and finished debate to provoke further disputes between the provinces do not serve the cause of the nation especially at this most delicate moment in the history of the country when our very existence is threatened.”