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Would “weaponsising” the water flow under IWT first impact the agriculture and livelihoods of the locals in PoK, as the water enters Pakistan through PoK? If so, would India risk turning the locals in PoK against India, thus adversely affecting their sentiment of re-uniting with India?
You should write for the Dawn
You sound like your school teachers were Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai
Trust these people who think they are intellectual liberals, who mug up books and have zero critical thinking to come up with this narrative. If the poor in Pakistan are traumatized we should do nothing of the indus water treaty. So we just quiver in fear and so nothing because “What if we anger more muslims in pak’?? Grow some balls for god’s sake.
It is obvious India cannot stop the complete flow. The thing India can do once the kinetic exchange between the two countries is over is to renegotiate the treaty which Pakistan has refused. Do you really thank in 1960 they knew how each country would grow and what was decided then is perfect. We are also starving for water in several regions. If some feasible solution is possible to divert some part of flow that needs to be explored and executed. If India focus on the will of Pakistani poor then we might as well disband the army and surrender ourselves to anybody who wants to rule us. Any action India takes will have a price and the question is are we willing to pay the price. Similarly only way to handle Pakistan is through deterrence. Once they realise the price is too high they will stop planning having a go at India.
Honestly, nothing new in the article that continues sabre-rattling of an unstable paxtan being dangerous for India. Even in its current form it is dangerous. If tomorrow, paxtan fails because of IWT, India can help by removing restrictions once a less unfriendly govt is in place.
Whoever wrote the headline seems to have woken up today. Pakistan itself was formed on the basis of Hindu/India hatred. It continues to exist in its ragtag form only on the basis of India hatred. The IWT plays no part. The clueless author seems to have forgotten that India never lost any of the cases brought forth by Pakistan on the IWT treaty. India still doesn’t make full use of the waters allotted to it. As for international opinion the world wouldn’t be in this state of countries cared about international opinion. The Pakis themselves don’t care about international opinion when spreading terror all over the world.
Would “weaponsising” the water flow under IWT first impact the agriculture and livelihoods of the locals in PoK, as the water enters Pakistan through PoK? If so, would India risk turning the locals in PoK against India, thus adversely affecting their sentiment of re-uniting with India?
You should write for the Dawn
You sound like your school teachers were Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai
Trust these people who think they are intellectual liberals, who mug up books and have zero critical thinking to come up with this narrative. If the poor in Pakistan are traumatized we should do nothing of the indus water treaty. So we just quiver in fear and so nothing because “What if we anger more muslims in pak’?? Grow some balls for god’s sake.
Nevertheless jihad is in dna. Just built infrastructure on river. What will happen in future we will see it
It is obvious India cannot stop the complete flow. The thing India can do once the kinetic exchange between the two countries is over is to renegotiate the treaty which Pakistan has refused. Do you really thank in 1960 they knew how each country would grow and what was decided then is perfect. We are also starving for water in several regions. If some feasible solution is possible to divert some part of flow that needs to be explored and executed. If India focus on the will of Pakistani poor then we might as well disband the army and surrender ourselves to anybody who wants to rule us. Any action India takes will have a price and the question is are we willing to pay the price. Similarly only way to handle Pakistan is through deterrence. Once they realise the price is too high they will stop planning having a go at India.
Honestly, nothing new in the article that continues sabre-rattling of an unstable paxtan being dangerous for India. Even in its current form it is dangerous. If tomorrow, paxtan fails because of IWT, India can help by removing restrictions once a less unfriendly govt is in place.
They are already united against us, every one of them are. You are too blind to see that
Whoever wrote the headline seems to have woken up today. Pakistan itself was formed on the basis of Hindu/India hatred. It continues to exist in its ragtag form only on the basis of India hatred. The IWT plays no part. The clueless author seems to have forgotten that India never lost any of the cases brought forth by Pakistan on the IWT treaty. India still doesn’t make full use of the waters allotted to it. As for international opinion the world wouldn’t be in this state of countries cared about international opinion. The Pakis themselves don’t care about international opinion when spreading terror all over the world.
Nothing new in Mr Swami’s analysis. The same old tired spectre of unstable Pakitan being greater danger to India.