By: Syed Ahmed Ali Syed
Founder and Chairman IAPWM
August 24th, 2019
This is, with a great pleasure, to inform all the I Am Pakistan Worldwide Movement (IAPWM) officials that it has been officially announced and broadcasted on the media in Pakistan that all the funds raised by the former Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Saqib Nisar during the fundraising campaign have been received and deposited to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and Supreme Court of Pakistan Dam funds account. Later all those funds were transferred to the State Bank of Pakistan, please see the attachments.
Ms. Sultana Siddiqui, the owner of HUM TV News Channel and the Coordinator of IAPWM has broadcasted the statement the same day that the Chief Justice in Lahore, Pakistan has confirmed that all the funds were received and all the official documents and information is available on the Dam Funds website.
I have personally spoken to Ms. Siddiqui and she has confirmed the details. My request to all the IAPWM officials now is that kindly whoever asks for the records and details of the funds received and their receipts please humbly tell them to visit the Supreme Court of Pakistan website and look for all the funds and they can track all the funds there. I would also like to inform that IAPWM is going to organize another series of the campaign starting from March 2020 to motivate the overseas Pakistanis to contribute and donate generously towards the Diamer Bhasha and Mohmand Dams. I hereby request all the officials to prepare and start working towards the preparations of the 2020 campaigns and we will keep working hard for this noble cause and will continue working until the Dams are built and are in function.
At this point I would like to remind that IAPWM doesn’t hold any bank account in any part of the world and the campaign we are organizing in March 2020 will not be any fundraising campaign but just awareness campaign. May Allah SWT accepts our efforts and helps us to make this possible.
August 21st, 2019 LAHORE –
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) on Wednesday received bids for the construction of dam part of Diamer Basha Dam. As many as two joint ventures (JVs), comprising one foreign and one local firm each, submitted their technical and financial bids for the project. These JVs include China Gezhouba Group Company – GRC JV and Power Construction Corporation of China – FWO JV.
Following submission of the bids, the technical bids were publically opened by the Bid Opening Committee in presence of the representatives of the firms included in the JVs. With the opening of the technical bids, the process of their evaluation has commenced. The technical bids opened on Wednesday, will be evaluated in accordance with the bidding documents and the relevant procurement rules of the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) and the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). Thereafter, the financial bids of the technically responsive bidders will be opened.
Pursuance to the judgment of the Supreme Court and priority of the federal government, WAPDA has been implementing Diamer Basha Dam and Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project. Construction work on Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project started in May this year, while work on Diamer Basha Dam is likely to be initiated soon. Construction of Diamer Basha Dam Project has been divided into two parts; the dam part and the power generation facilities.
Diamer Basha Dam will be constructed across River Indus about 40 kilometers downstream of Chillas town. It is a multipurpose project aims at water storage, flood mitigation and power generation. The project will have a gross water storage capacity of 8.1 million acre-feet (MAF) and installed power generation capacity of 4500 megawatts (MW).
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