Dam projects must take into consideration social factors Pakistan Government admits that environmental factors ignored in the past
The Hindu article by Kalpana Sharma on WCD public hearing - December 11, 1998
[Anti-Kalabagh Rally in Washington, DC]
June 13, 1998
Submission to the World Commission on Dams -December, 1998
by Abdul Majid Kazi (Former Senator) and A. N. G. Abbasi (Former Minister for Irrigation, Government of Sindh; Resigned in Protest against Military Government's Policy on Kalabagh Dam; Previously, Secretary of Irrigation, Power and Agriculture, Government of Sindh)
(Expanded version of a letter titled “Kalabagh Dam: an ecological disaster?” that appeared in Dawn on June 4, 1997)
Anatomy of Kalabagh Dam (1992)
by Engineer Abdul Rasool Memon
(Former GM WAPDA and CE Irrigation)
Publisher: Pakistan Study Center
Allama I. I. Kazi Campus
University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
Available at the Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Proceedings of the PASSP Seminar on
Kalabagh Dam (Karachi, 1992)
Publisher: Convener Information and Publication
Pakistan Association of Scientists and Scientific Professions
Block-5, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi 75300, Pakistan
Available at the Grainger Engineering Library
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
An Assessment of the Kalabagh Dam Project
on the River Indus, Pakistan (1990)
by Muhammad Nasir Gazdar (Foreword by Philip B. William, President, International Rivers Network)
Publisher: Environmental Management Society
141-A, SMCHS, Karachi, Pakistan
Phone: (92-21)454120 Fax: (92-21)454-7532
Available through Probe International
Adding to the Legacy: World Bank Funds Kalabagh Dam
World Rivers Review, Nov/Dec 1989, vol 4, no 6
Kalabagh Dam Project - Executive Summary (October 1988)
Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority
and Kalabagh Consultants
Available through Probe International
Damming the Waters of Life by Muhammad Nasir Gazdar
International Third World, May 1988
Available through Probe International
Kalabagh Dam Project
Feasibility Study (8 vols.), February, 1975
Associated Consulting Engineers Ltd.
1/C-2 M. M. Alam Road Gulbarg III Lahore, Pakistan
Available at Colorado State University Library
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Introduction, Clippings, Technical Report,
Maps, Sponsors, Contacts, IRN
Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
by Patrick McCully, IRN Campaigns Director. Published by Zed Books, 1996
The problem with large-scale Hydro Dams in the Third World
Canada eyes Pakistan
hydroelectric prospects during power study visit,
World Water and Environmental Engineering, Jan/Feb, 1990