QUETTA, Dec 28: The Sindhi Adabi Sangat has demanded of the government to give up the idea of constructing the Kalabagh dam owing to the shortage of water in the Indus river.

Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday, Dr. Altaf Hussain, councillor of the literary forum, said that the IRSA and Senate’s Standing Committee for Water and Resources had rejected the Kalabagh dam project in 1996 and 1998 respectively.

Dr Altaf said that according to constitutional requirements the Wapda authority should have filed an appeal in the Council of Common Interest against the rejection of the project by the IRSA.—Correspondent