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[South Asia] Proposed Pakistan dam can lead to disaster like Chernobyl
Pakistan is building is a 908 ft high RCC dam atop Central Asian fault-line, which can lead to another Chernobyl. The dam site has felt at least three hundred tremors in a month, which make the proposed dam as destructive as hydrogen bomb. Tow major quakes of seven plus magnitude were witnessed in the area recently.It is scary that Pakistan wants to make a world record by building the world’s highest Roller Compacted Concrete dam to store eight million acre feet (MAF) of water. Pakistan’s top engineer, Suleman Najib has warned “Review the dam. Its destructive power will wipe out everything on the Indus (river basin).” Najib is the Convenor of Water Resources Development Council of Pakistan. Yet, neither the all-powerful Pakistani Army, which is footing thirty percent of the bill through