The president of the Popular Party of Pakistan (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said that the proponents of the Kalabagh dam are trying to create cracks between the provinces at a time when the country needs to face the assault of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Indo River.
“Ravi, Chenab and Sutlej are flooded in Punjab, but I do not understand why the proposals again and again of a controversial dam are being floating,” he lamented while talking to the media in Sukkur on Tuesday.
The president of the PPP, accompanied by Sindh’s prime minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, the provincial ministers Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Jam Khan Shoro visited the Guddu and Sukkur bombs. They informed him about the bombings and flooding that is approaching.
Bilawal stressed that such support voices for Kalabagh are not only creating differences between the provinces, but that Pakistan’s own case of the Indo Water Treaty and the historical attack of the Modi government against Sindhu is affected.
لائیو: پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری سکھر بیراج ممکنہ سیلابی صرو حال پر کے کے یڈی– ےtitude
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He noted that the flood is going through three Punjab rivers, not through the Indo in which the Kalabagh project is being desired.
“We want all provinces to respond to Modi as brothers. There is no reason to fight between us.” He said, Modi is trying to replicate the Israel approach, which cuts the water and food supply to Palestine. “Modi wants to flood people by releasing flood water or leaving them thirst without water.”
However, Bilawal promised that Pakistan would not let Modi succeed in his disastrous plans. He argued that India will have to accept and implement the Indo Water Treaty or will have to renounce the control of the three eastern rivers. “We are ready to fight this case.”
Bisp support
The president of the PPP said that the federal government has inexplicably delayed financial support through the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) for people affected by rain and floods in Punjab, KP and GB.
He noted that more than two weeks have passed since several people have been displaced in Punjab, but they have not yet received financial help. “The Punjab government efforts to provide rations and organize other facilities for people affected by floods are insufficient.”
According to him, he had also personally requested Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to use the BISP platform for such disbursements because the program offers the most transparent network for this exercise.
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“I want to repeat this demand again because Punjab people have been in the camps for about two weeks.” He pointed out that there are different phases of rescue, relief and reconstruction with which the government helps victims of natural disasters.
Bilawal wondered why the federal government has not launched an appeal for global financial assistance to help people suffering from the consequences of climate change effects.
He recalled that during the floods of 2022 in Sindh and Baluchistan, when he was the country’s foreign minister, he launched an appeal of reconstruction assistance and also assured promises and funds.
