‘If we keep shrinking its bed, it will definitely enter our houses. How can we call it an angry river, it's not the river’s fault,' said a 23-year-old who lives by the Chenab River.
A ruling from the Court of Arbitration last week backed Pakistan by saying that India must adhere to the Indus Waters Treaty in the design of new hydro-electric power stations on rivers that flow west into Pakistan.
For India, the IWT has increasingly come to feel like a
straitjacket—one that restrains its strategic options even as
Pakistan provides safe havens for anti-India terror outfits.
The Union home minister said Pakistan will be ‘starved’ of water that it has been getting ‘unjustifiably’. He said a canal will be built to divert the water to Rajasthan.
The Union home minister said Pakistan will be ‘starved’ of water that it has been getting ‘unjustifiably’. He said a canal will be built to divert the water to Rajasthan.
Project envisages constructing a barrage with storage capacity of 0.30 MAF to stabilise Jhelum’s water level. It was abandoned in 1987 after strong objections from Pakistan.
In a widely circulated video, Lashkar-e-Taiba chief had said if you stop the water, God willing, we will stop your breath, and then blood shall flow in these rivers.
Conceived in the early 80s, work began on the Tulbul project in 1984 on river Jhelum, at the mouth of the Wular Lake, India’s largest freshwater lake near Sopore in North Kashmir.
Global media also highlights US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s call for India and Pakistan to ‘de-escalate tensions’, and raising the possible need to bring in a ‘neutral third party’.
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