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Absolutely! You are spot on.
And yet, India and Pakistan had agreed to divide the Indus river basin waters under the treaty facilitated by the World Bank.
Why did you not come up with this “logic” back then? Or do you subscribe to this “logic” now?
If this is the case, why don’t you champion the case of granting all waters to Pakistan, since, by your own logic “a living river cannot be divided like property”.
As long as things benefit your home state of Punjab, you would not utter a word against it. For others, the yardstick is different, isn’t it?
Absolutely! You are spot on.
And yet, India and Pakistan had agreed to divide the Indus river basin waters under the treaty facilitated by the World Bank.
Why did you not come up with this “logic” back then? Or do you subscribe to this “logic” now?
If this is the case, why don’t you champion the case of granting all waters to Pakistan, since, by your own logic “a living river cannot be divided like property”.
As long as things benefit your home state of Punjab, you would not utter a word against it. For others, the yardstick is different, isn’t it?