Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) President Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the proponents of the Kalabagh dam are trying to create cracks among the provinces at a time when the country is to confront Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attack on the river Indus.
“Ravi, Chenab and Sutlej are in flooding in Punjab, but I do not understand why again and again suggestions for a controversial dam,” he complained as he spoke with the media in SUKKUR on Tuesday.
PPP chairman, accompanied by Sindh -Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Provincial Ministers Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Jam Khan Shoro visited Guddu and Sukkur barriers. He was informed of the barriers and the nearby flood.
Bilawal emphasized that such votes on support for Kalabagh not only create differences between the provinces, but the Pakistan’s own case of the Indus Waters Treaty and the Modi government’s historical attack on Sindhu are affected.
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He observed that the flood passes through three Punjab rivers, not through the indus the Kalabagh project is desired.
“We want all provinces to answer modi as brothers. There is no need to fight between us.” He said Modi is trying to repeat Israel’s approach, which cuts off water and food supplies to Palestine. “Modi either wants to flood the people by releasing flooding water or leaving them thirsty without water.”
However, Bilawal promised that Pakistan would not let Modi succeed in his dishonest plans. He claimed that either India will have to accept and implement the Indus Water Treaty or that it will have to give up control of the three eastern rivers. “We’re ready to fight this case.”
Bisp support
The PPP chairman said the federal government has been inexplicably delayed with financial support through Benazir Income Support Program (Bisp) for rain and flooding affected people in Punjab, KP and GB.
He observed that it has been over two weeks since a number of people have been displaced in Punjab, but they have not yet received financial aid. “The efforts of the Punjab government to provide ration and arrange other facilities for flooders are inadequate.”
According to him, he had also personally requested Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to utilize the Bisp platform for such payments because the program offers the most transparent network for this exercise.
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“I will again repeat this requirement because Punjab’s people have been in the camps for about two weeks.” He noted that there are various stages of rescue, relief and reconstruction that the government helps the victims of the natural disasters.
Bilawal wondered why the federal government has not launched an appeal on global economic assistance to help the people suffering from the consequences of climate change effects.
He recalled that during 2022 floods in Sindh and Balochistan, when he was the country’s foreign minister, he also launched an appeal for help with reconstruction and secured promises and funds.
