KARACHI: Former president Pervez Musharraf has announced to donate Rs 15 million to the dams fund. It is set up by the Supreme Court for construction of Diamer Bhasha and Mohmand dams.
In a tweet, Musharraf’s party All Pakistan Muslim League said the ex-president announced to donate Rs 15 million for dams construction. On April 26, 2006, Musharraf had performed the ground-breaking of Diamer-Bhasha dam. And declared that all dams, including Kalabagh, would be built under the ‘2016 Water Vision’. To meet the growing water and energy requirements of the country.
“Water and energy are matters of life and death for us. We have to build all dams,” he said at that time.
“We have lagged far behind and have to work at a fast pace to catch up with the rest of the world,” he said.
The Fund has been established by the SBP on the directions of the Supreme Court. All the commercial and micro-finance banks and field offices of SBP Banking Services Corporation have opened the Fund account to receive donations in cash. And through cheques, pay orders and demand drafts at all their branches across the country.
The donors can also make online donations to the Fund. Through internet banking, automatic teller machines (ATM). And other alternate delivery channels (ADC) using IBAN of their respective bank. The banks have sent the IBAN of the Fund account to their clients. Through SMS alerts, while the bank-wise list of IBAN is also available at the SBP’s web page.
Citizens can also donate Rs10 to the CJP’s dam fund by typing “dam”. And sending the SMS to 8000 which will deduct the amount from the phone’s credit.
The donations can also be made through credit/debit cards from anywhere in the world by clicking the “Online collections for Supreme Court Diamer Bhasha & Mohamand Dams Fund” on the SBP’s web page.