Kalabagh Dam would have caused more flooding: experts

Former IRSA chief says dam is not a flood-control project * ANP says dam would have done immense harm to KP, Sindh By Iqbal Khattak PESHAWAR: The Kalabagh Dam – had it been built – would have caused flooding rather than averting it, a former chairman of the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) said on Wednesday, while responding to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's recent statement about the dam. "The dam's effect on floods would have been contrary to what the prime minister claimed," said Fatehullah Khan Gandapur, who headed IRSA from 1993 to 1998. The KP leadership has criticised the PM's statement, and Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain termed the project "a dead horse". "Kalabagh dam is not a flood-control project," Gandapur said while talking to Daily Times on...

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