Federal Minister for Railways and a leading figure of Awami National Party Mr Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has reiterated his party’s resolve to block any move to re-initiate plans to re-examine the issue of the construction of Kalabagh Dam.
In an environment in which the catastrophic consequences of the unprecedented ‘flooding’ originating from the North have forced many a sane person to reexamine attitudes towards the need for controlling storing and managing our water resources, the Abu Jehl-like rigidity of the avowed opponents of the Kalabagh Dam can at the mildest be called unfortunate, and at the worst, shocking and despicable.
One had hoped that the prejudices, the dislikes and the mental blockages of the past would have been washed away by the murderous ferocity of the floods. One had also hoped that the notorious ‘Naushehra-will-drown’ bogey (rejected forcefully by Shamsul Mulk a proud son of Naushehra) would also meet the same fate that those unprepared for the Nature’s wrath were to meet, and met. But it appears that the reasons because of which a particular school of thought had forcefully opposed the creation of Pakistan, and which have been behind the wishes and moves of some quarters to get the name Islamic removed from the Republic of Pakistan, are not prepared to be swept away by the tidal waves of history. When the flag-bearers of this school of thought say that Kalabagh Dam is a dead horse, and let it remain in the domain of the dead, they are only reviving the memories of what their previous generation used to say about Pakistan.
“It is an idea that has no fitter abode than a grave.”
Let them be told today that just as they couldn’t bury the idea of Pakistan, they will not succeed in burying the idea of Kalabagh Dam too.
(First publish on
22-09-2010)
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