MMA’s provincial council backs new water reservoirs
From Our Correspondent

LAHORE—Muthida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) in its provincial council meeting here on Wednesday supported construction of new water reservoirs to meet irrigation requirements and generate electricity.
Agenda of the meeting was to discuss construction of Kalabagh Dam and problems of Earth-quake victims. President MMA Punjab MNA Liaquat Balouch presided over the meeting. While MMA Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed attended the meeting on special request from the provincial council.
Mr. Balouch while briefing the newsmen after the meeting said that the provincial council has emphasised upon the need of construction of new water reservoirs to maintain progress in agriculture sector. He said that construction of water reservoirs is a technical issue but it has been made controversial by the people having vested interests.
He said there is nothing controversial in it and there is no harm in construction of water reservoirs. He said that WAPDA chief Tariq Hamid in a briefing to him and other politicians have told that water requirement of agriculture sector would not be met even after construction of Kalabagh, Basha and Akhori dams, therefore all other dams at feasible sites should also be built.
The provincial council has decided to invite those experts who are against construction of dams to listen their views and develop a broader consensus on the issue. Prominent other participants from six parties religious alliance included : Pir Ijaz Hashmi, Hafiz Sulman Butt, Maulana Amjad, Qari Zawar Bahadur, Mufti Hidayat Ullah Pasruri, Rashid Ludhianvi, Abdul Malik Shah, Allama Afzal Jalil Naqvi, Maulana Abdur Rashid Anwar, Naeem Ullah Farooqi and Azhar Iqbal Hassan.
The council expressed condolences over the demise of Maulana Shams ul Islam, uncle of Maulana Amjad Khan and wife of General K.M. Azhar.