PML leaders should create consensus on five dams: Musharraf

RAWALPINDI: President Pervez Musharraf has asked Pakistan Muslim League Sindh leaders to iron out their differences and work for a consensus in Sindh on construction of five large dams including the Kalabagh dam.
PML leaders from Sindh called on President Pervez Musharraf at the presidential camp office in Rawalpindi on Friday and a strategy was finalized to create a consensus in Sindh on construction of large dams.
Chief Minister of Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Chairman senate Mohammedmian Soomro, National Security Council’s Secretary Tariq Aziz, federal ministers from Sindh Liaquat Jatoi, Abdul Razzaq Thahim, Ghous Bux Mahar, secretary general PML Sindh Nadir Akmal Leghari, Imtiaz Shaikh and other political notables of the province attended the meeting.
Musharraf said that the dams are the need of the country and Kalabagh dam has been in the best interest of Sindh. “I want to save Sindh, for which construction of Kalabagh dam is necessary”, he said and added that he has announced to build Bhasha and Munda dams first in respect of the public opinion.
He said before creating a consensus on dams in the province and addressing peoples’ reservations on the issue mutual differences should be sorted out. Musharraf said that the construction of all five large dams would be completed till 2016.
PML leaders lauded the decision to build Bhasha and Munda dams first saying that the president has respected the public opinion and now the people will esteem the president’s opinion.