Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday announced that there will be no further progress on the canals till mutual consent in the Commonwealth Council.
In Islamabad, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif along with Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto announced that “the federal government has decided that further progress on the canals will not be without consensus between the provinces.”
Shahbaz Sharif said, “In the matter of canals, we should resolve this issue through mutual consent, mutual dialogue and today we have decided that no further canal will be made unless the common interests are decided in the Council.”
“Today, we have decided that a meeting of the Commonwealth Council is being convened on Friday, May 2, in which the decisions of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the PML -N will be supported,” he said.
“The Kala Bagh Dam is economically in the best interest of Pakistan, but nothing is more important than the federation,” he said as Kala Bagh Dam.
Shahbaz Sharif said, “If other units and Sindh have expressed their objections regarding Kala Bagh Dam, we should accept it.”
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“If the Kala Bagh Dam contradicts the interests of the federation, we should refrain from it.”
Speaking on the occasion, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addressed Shahbaz Sharif and said, “Your representative not only heard the objections and complaints of our representative, but after hearing them, he made these important decisions.”
Bilawal Bhutto said, “Today, we are not making any decision together in this way. All they are determining that new streams are not being made on the issue of water without consensus. ‘
