Islamabad: Secretary Water and Power, Imtiaz Qazi has announced that Pakistan had submitted its case (reservations) over the controversial Kishan-Ganga project in the arbitration court.
Briefing the meeting of senate’s standing committee for water and power, headed by chairman senator Lashkar Raessani on Wednesday, and Talking to media after the briefing, the secretary water and power also informed that the case would be reviewed at end of July, and assured that India would never be allowed to change water course of rivers to Pakistan as it had completed only 5 percent of the proposed 23.5 kilometers tunnel for the project.
The secretary water and power also informed that thousands of new electricity connections were allotted every month, while excusing load-shedding over ‘simple logic of non-availability of electricity’.
He cited adding additional 3000MWs of electricity in the system, and also informed that Mianwali district had been earlier exempted from load-shedding, which was being reverted.
He also announced that there would be no nationwide load-shedding in the Holy month of Ramadan.
Responding to the briefing the chairman senate’s standing committee for Water and Power was chagrined over the fact that a barrage of lies had been unleashed since past three years, and cited the recent statement of chairman WAPDA in which he had expressed non-availability of funds for construction of dams in Country.
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