Build Kalabagh Dam to secure future of Pakistan
Build Kalabagh Dam to secure future of Pakistan
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In December 2004, the former President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf, declared that he would construct the dam to help the greater interest of Pakistan. However, on 26 May 2008, the Federal Minister for Water and Power of Pakistan, Raja Pervez Ashraf, said that the “Kalabagh Dam would not be constructed” and that the scheme had been invalid due to “hostility from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and other stakeholders, the project was no lengthier practicable”.

In December 2004, the former President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf, declared that he would construct the dam to help the greater interest of Pakistan. However, on 26 May 2008, the Federal Minister for Water and Power of Pakistan, Raja Pervez Ashraf, said that the “Kalabagh Dam would not be constructed” and that the scheme had been invalid due to “hostility from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and other stakeholders, the project was no lengthier practicable”.

In 2010 after the worst floods in Pakistani history, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, definite flood injury would be diminished if the Kalabagh Dam were built. A self-governing panel assembled by the World Bank in the late 1980s supported the confirmations of the Project Planning Report. The Pakistan & Gulf Economist reported in 2003 that “One of the major reason for the resolve to build a storage dam at Kalabagh is that it is the only selection prepared for instant application maintained by number of reviews and viability studies estimate billions of rupees.”

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain also provisionally maintained the Kalabagh dam and said that government should address the doubts of Sindh is before its construction.

Dem based geomorphic analysis along kalabagh responsibility and potwar plateau to oblige surface distortion implications from remote sensing and GIS. The Potwar Plateau and Kalabagh fault region is an inferior part of North West Himalayan fold and push girdle and is a direct result of India-Eurasia collision. The interaction between tectonics and erosional situation has formed an actual sole landscape, creases and thrust geometries in this area.

That is to oblige energetic tectonics and related surface distortions based on geomorphic directories. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DEM with a four-dimensional determination of 90 m is a good dataset to constrain active tectonics and topographic analysis. The geomorphic indices were removed spontaneously using normal procedures.

Complete analyses based on watercourse outlines, feature thickness, stream density, drainage configurations, topographic respite, Landsat imagery and available geological maps exposed an association between geomorphometric indices and tectonics. The geomorphic indices analysis also specifies active tectonics that displays control over the topography in the Potwar plateau and Kalabagh liability zone.

The spatial distributions of adjustable elevate charges are characteristic of exclusive surface distortion within the Potwar plateau and Kalabagh liability region. India will turn Pakistan into desert by building dams. North-west India to get highest rainfall during monsoon. India will hold maximum water in the dams it has created and then would release all water suddenly causing huge floods in Pakistan. Kalabagh dam would guarantee sufficient and cheap electricity.

The experts claim that availability of water in the country is decreasing in an alarming rate with its demand increasing at the same pace. Pakistan is dependent upon Monsoons season (70% Monsoon and 30% glaciers melting).

There are no rains in Pakistan because all old dams are expired and we don’t have any new dam which can enhance monsoons season in Pakistan. The Kalabagh dam remained the most appropriate project for the national economy as it would not only harvest cheap and sufficient electricity but would also prevent hominid adversities.