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The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said that water scarcity will transform Pakistan into a totally failed state within a decade.
War between Pakistan and India on the issue of water resources seems inevitable as serious efforts by Islamabad to increase trade between the two countries had not helped New Delhi to change its policy of water aggression, said PEW President Dr Murtaza Mughal.
Speaking at a seminar on World Water Day, he said according Most Favoured Nation status to India may not change its decades-old policy to make Pakistan infertile.
The issue of water aggression cannot be resolved through enhanced trade or negotiations as India may not like to settle the dispute except a full scale armed conflict with global implications, he observed.
Dr Murtaza Mughal said all the civilian and military governments of Pakistan had failed to ensure water security or advocate India to change its long-term policy of destroying Pakistan through water hostilities. India will continue to build dams violating the Indus Water Treaty while majority of international forums would continue to support New Delhi which had left Pakistan will little options, he said.
Presently Pakistan could store 10 million acre feet of water while it had storage capacity of 16 million acre feet of water some 38 years ago. According to a report of World Bank, water scarcity became a threat in Pakistan some 11 years ago as per capita water availability was around half of the accepted international level.
Dr Mughal said water scarcity would become a great danger in the next 10 years which would hurt masses, agriculture and industry leading to tensions between provinces and civil war which would be enough to make Pakistan a totally failed state.
India wants infertile Pakistan: PEW | Pakistan Today
War between Pakistan and India on the issue of water resources seems inevitable as serious efforts by Islamabad to increase trade between the two countries had not helped New Delhi to change its policy of water aggression, said PEW President Dr Murtaza Mughal.
Speaking at a seminar on World Water Day, he said according Most Favoured Nation status to India may not change its decades-old policy to make Pakistan infertile.
The issue of water aggression cannot be resolved through enhanced trade or negotiations as India may not like to settle the dispute except a full scale armed conflict with global implications, he observed.
Dr Murtaza Mughal said all the civilian and military governments of Pakistan had failed to ensure water security or advocate India to change its long-term policy of destroying Pakistan through water hostilities. India will continue to build dams violating the Indus Water Treaty while majority of international forums would continue to support New Delhi which had left Pakistan will little options, he said.
Presently Pakistan could store 10 million acre feet of water while it had storage capacity of 16 million acre feet of water some 38 years ago. According to a report of World Bank, water scarcity became a threat in Pakistan some 11 years ago as per capita water availability was around half of the accepted international level.
Dr Mughal said water scarcity would become a great danger in the next 10 years which would hurt masses, agriculture and industry leading to tensions between provinces and civil war which would be enough to make Pakistan a totally failed state.
India wants infertile Pakistan: PEW | Pakistan Today
