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dam-l Kalabagh Dam, Pakistan
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>>> 03 April 1998 Friday 05 Zul Hijjah 1418
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>>> Kalabagh dam vital for development: PM
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>>> ISLAMABAD, April 2: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that
>>> construction of Kalabagh Dam was a must for the country's development.
>>> Presiding over the PML parliamentary party's meeting, Nawaz Sharif
>>> said, "Kalabagh Dam is vital for the country's economy and its
>>> construction would be kicked off soon."
>>> Earlier majority of PML legislators including Chaudhry Mohammad
>>> Ashraf, Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor, Adnan Aurangzeb strongly demanded
>>> immediate construction of the dam.
>>> Chairman WAPDA Shamsul Malik briefing the legislators dispelled the
>>> impression that the project would affect hundreds of thousand people.
>>> "This is baseless propaganda against the dam and in fact every
>>> Pakistani will be getting benefit if the project is completed."
>>> He said that the price that WAPDA would pay to the private energy
>>> producers in two years, required to complete construction of this dam.
>>> The prime minister said that the government had been striving hard to
>>> seek consensus at the national level for the construction of Kalabagh
>>> dam "it's believed that the construction of this project would be
>>> kicked off soon."-NNI