Indian dams on Pakistani rivers: JI submits adjournment motion in Senate

05 Mar, 2011

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Friday submitted adjournment motion to the senate's secretariat against the reported construction of 190 dams by India on Pakistani rivers in the next six years in violation of Indus Water Treaty. The motion was submitted by three senators of JI, namely Professor Khurshid Ahmed, Professor Mohammad Ibrahim and Afia Zia.
The senators expressed concerns over the reported plan of the Indian government to construct 190 dams during the next six years in violation of the Indus Water Treaty. Through another adjournment motion submitted in the Upper House of the parliament, they expressed concerns over the rising cases of Hepatitis B and C in the country, which according to them is due to the heap of waste material in the hospitals.
Meanwhile, in two different call attention notices, the issue of dilapidated condition of Pakistan Railways and lack of machinery for kidney patients in Federal Services Hospital (Policlinic) was raised. The JI senators demanded the government that the issues of public importance should be discussed in the coming session of the senate by suspending routine business.

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