ISLAMABAD, Oct 05 (APP): Minister for Water Resources Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah on Wednesday visited Project Office of Greater Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme, commonly known as K-IV Project, and reviewed progress on the project.
The minister was accompanied by Chairman WAPDA Lt Gen Sajjad Ghani (Retd), said a press release.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that K-IV was an important project to help address the issue of water shortage in the cosmopolitan city of Karachi. Therefore, the federal government is keen to complete this project in the shortest possible time, he said.
Expressing satisfaction over the measures taken by the project management, he said that the Ministry of Water Resources would fully support WAPDA for completion of the project.
Earlier, the Project Director made a detailed presentation to the minister about the progress on K-IV Project.
He was briefed that the project was being executed through eight different contracts. Phase-I of K-IV Project is scheduled for completion in March 2024. Prompt release of funds is essential for completion of the project as per the schedule, the minister was told.
K-IV Project envisages supply of 650 million gallon water per day (MGD) to Karachi from Keenjhar Lake. WAPDA has been entrusted by the federal government to construct Phase-I of the project, which will provide 260 MGD water to Karachi.

ISLAMABAD, Oct 05 (APP): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday reserved its judgment on appeals of accused against death penalty in murder case of Major Muhammad Laraib.
A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan reserved the verdict after listening arguments at length.
At the outset of hearing, the chief justice expressed annoyance with the police and noted that no investigation was done in this murder case. He remarked that the police order was imposed whether it was being implemented or not.
The chief justice asked why not the court should fix responsibility on the then SSP and investigation officer for not observing their duties. The court asked that how the police came to know that accused Baitullah was the real murderer. How the body of the slain major reached PIMS hospital and firstly it was linked to an accident, he asked.
SSP Investigation Farhat Abbasi Kazmi requested the court to grant the police some time to interrogate the case. The court said that responsibility of the poor investigation should be fixed to set a precedent. The then relevant magistrate should also have been held accountable, it added.
The SSP said that the departmental action would be taken against the responsible. It had to be viewed that which investigation team was working that time.
The chief justice said that a criminal action should be taken against them instead of departmental action. It was also our responsibility to view that why these two people were arrested as they were also human being.
The court couldn’t grant permission to keep someone behind the bars without any evidence, Justice Minallah said. After this, the bench reserved its judgment in the case.
It may be mentioned here that a lower court had announced death sentence to two men including Baitullah and Gul Siddiqui last year in the murder case. Major Laraib was shot to death on November 21, 2019 in sector G-9 Islamabad.