tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644060958379881408.post6650983913310175034..comments2024-02-05T10:56:53.295+05:00Comments on General Knowledge: Chief Ministers of PunjabUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644060958379881408.post-44653447275447841792014-08-04T17:17:13.429+05:002014-08-04T17:17:13.429+05:00Many comments can be made on the para dealing with...Many comments can be made on the para dealing with Sindh’s objections to Kalabagh dam but I will confine myself to just one comment.<br />You talk about the abrupt decision by Gen Musharraf to build KBD which caused resentment. This was not an abrupt decision but the most thoroughly considered decision ever.<br />To begin with the Wapda chairman Gen Zulfikar was deputed to address the cultivators in Sindh on a number of occasions. He reasoned at great length with them to try and convince them of the many benefits of KBD to Sindh and tried to allay their unfounded fears of the dam. <br />When that did not work Gen Musharraf himself addressed journalists and educators for hours in Sindh along the same lines.<br />He got the irrigation secretaries of the four provinces to deliberate for weeks and months until they all agreed on the technical aspects of KBD.<br />He constituted a Technical Committee on Water Resources comprising of engineers from the four provinces under the chairmanship of A N G Kazi. After more than a year the committee produced two reports, the minority report by the chairman and one member from Sindh which opposed KBD and a majority report by seven members: Punjab-2, NWFP-2, Balochistan-2 and Sindh-1, who approved the dam.<br />If the above can be called ‘abrupt’ I will take back my words.<br />It was not tp please Punjab that Musharraf persisted for so long to get a consensus on KBD, it was because he knew of the benefits that Sindh would get from the dam, “I will not let Sindh become a desert by not building Kalabagh dam”, he had said.<br />Having failed in all his efforts in face of severe opposition from Sindh he very reluctantly opted for Bhasha dam. <br />Please refer to his speech at the time of opting for Bhasha dam instead of Kalabagh dam. He had clearly said that Kalabagh dam was far superior to Bhasha dam in all respects, which he mentioned in detail, but he was having to announce the construction of Bhasha dam to save the federation.<br />khurshid666https://www.blogger.com/profile/07150753140261434298noreply@blogger.com