The Kalabagh Dam (Urdu: کالا باغ ڈيم‎), is a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Indus River at Kalabagh in the
Mianwali District of Punjab Province in Pakistan. Intensely debated and deemed a necessity since its inception,
if constructed the dam would have 3,600 megawatts (4,800,000 hp) of electricity generation capacity.
In December 2004, then President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf, announced that he would build the
dam to serve the larger interest of Pakistan. However, on 26 May 2008, the Federal Minister for Water and Power
of Pakistan, Raja Pervez Ashraf, said that the "Kalabagh Dam would not be constructed" and that the project had
been cancelled due to "opposition from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and other stakeholders, the project was no
longer feasible".[2] In 2010 after the worst floods in Pakistani history, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza
Gilani, stated flood damage would be minimised if the Kalabagh Dam were built.
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