The floods in Sindh rise from the Indus and its five big tributaries. While the Indus can be contained by Tarbela dam, there are no dams on Kabul, Chitral, Swat, Haro and Sohan rivers. Only Swat river has a site for a dam. The flood waters from the other four tributaries will continue to flood Sindh until a dam is built on the Indus which is downstream of these tributaries.
Sindh has a choice, either to reconcile itself to floods which will go on increasing in intensity every year or agree to a dam at Kalabagh site. With the federal body IRSA controlling river water distribution, Sindh will be assured of 2.2 million acre feet of additional water without the loss of even one acre of land or the displacement of even one person.
Should Sindh reject all these advantages merely because Punjab will also get a share, a share reduced in favour of Sindh? Punjab will take its share from the surplus flood waters stored in the reservoir and not from the Indus river which will continue to flow normally to Sindh.
KHURSHID ANWER
Lahore