By AH Nizami in the Express Tribune Jan 18 MIRPUR: Expressing concern over the delay in resettlement of the people affected by the upraising of Mangla Dam, an alliance of three major action committees threatened, on Tuesday, to take to the streets and stage an indefinite sit-in in Mirpur from January 20. Spokesperson for the alliance, Sardar Attique Sadhozai told The Express Tribune that the affected people led by leaders of the action committees will…
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By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, Jan 17 GILGIT: As Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) continue to clash over the Diamer-Bhasha dam boundary, the federal government has summoned the chief ministers of both regions to Islamabad in order to work out a solution to the dispute, sources revealed on Monday. “The chief ministers of both regions have been summoned to Islamabad for a meeting with the prime minister,” an official in the G-B Assembly…
LAHORE: Former UN and World Bank Chief Technical Adviser Eng Bashir A Malik has expressed reservations about the recently-started Diamer Bhasha dam. In an appeal to the chief justice of Pakistan, he said that Bhasha was not a natural site for a storage dam like Tarbela and Kalabagh. “It was identified as a site for hydropower development by the World Bank in 1967. However, its first feasibility report was drawn for a storage dam on…