India Takes First Step Towards Indus Water Treaty Withdrawal

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If India is trying to withdraw from water treaty, she will leave Pakistan no option but war.
What will war bring to others? Huge purchase order!!
There is nothing better than a war between two countries on saving everyone else.

The war itself will create demand to military equipment!
The rebuilding after the war will create huge demand on civilian goods!

Everyone will thank you.
even better,
will give us a reason to split that shithole in n number of parts
will keep our next gen safe from cross border terrorism:hat::hat::hat::hat::hat::hat::hat::hat::hat::hat:
 

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If India is trying to withdraw from water treaty, she will leave Pakistan no option but war.
What will war bring to others? Huge purchase order!!
There is nothing better than a war between two countries on saving everyone else.

The war itself will create demand to military equipment!
The rebuilding after the war will create huge demand on civilian goods!

Everyone will thank you.
Who told you India is withdrawing from the treaty.
Prime Minister Modi has decided to expedite the construction of Dams along the Jammu region so that people out there wont suffer from water scarcity. That's it, nothing more.
 

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First step is utilizing what we are legally entitled to and completing the damns that would enable us to control water flow as required.
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If India is trying to withdraw from water treaty, she will leave Pakistan no option but war.
What will war bring to others? Huge purchase order!!
There is nothing better than a war between two countries on saving everyone else.

The war itself will create demand to military equipment!
The rebuilding after the war will create huge demand on civilian goods!

Everyone will thank you.
You're welcome.

Let Pakis wage a war if they dare to. You can supply your shitty weapon systems like JF17.

Now, go whine about SCS and issue idle threats like the Pakis do.
 

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If India is trying to withdraw from water treaty, she will leave Pakistan no option but war.
What will war bring to others? Huge purchase order!!
There is nothing better than a war between two countries on saving everyone else.

The war itself will create demand to military equipment!
The rebuilding after the war will create huge demand on civilian goods!

Everyone will thank you.
I can't understand that why people jump in without even reading the details about topic?:facepalm:
My intelligent friend:
India under utilizes IwT using only 20% when it should use at least 40%. Even if we start using 50%, pakistanis can't object because we just took back the concession within the conditions of IWT which we gave them earlier.
Pakistanis want World Bank to mediate IWT but in fact it's bilateral treaty which was not facilitated any UN member.

So, nobody will give a damn even if war breaks (unlikely because India won't violate but will just exploit under conditions).
Though, even in this unlikely scenario, imagine even if India blocks water completely,

Pakistan boasted of bravery of it's army and warned us against any surgical strike and took a video with us as proof. As Pakistan doesn't have nuts or balls to retaliate, they denied.
Similarly, even if India blocks water (unlikely), they will come up with new argument but won't undergo war.
Mark ny Words.:biggrin2:
 

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@no smoking , check the capability of Pak Army ....................they dont have ability to fight against Indian Army in the battlefields ............this is why they are sending terrorists ...............

IWT will be dumped & Pakis will not be able to no anything except crying .
 

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India slams World Bank decision on Indus Treaty

The Indus Waters Treaty 1960, which settled the sharing of the Indus waters, is internationally regarded as an example of successful conflict-resolution between two countries otherwise locked in a bad relationship. | The Hindu Photo Library
While India had asked for appointment of a neutral expert over Pakistan’s objections to projects first, Pakistan appealed directly for formation of a Court of Arbitration.

India lashed out at the World Bank for its decision to favour Pakistan on the Indus Water Treaty dispute process over the Kishenganga and Ratle dam and hydropower projects.
While India had asked for the appointment of a neutral expert over Pakistan’s objections to the projects first, Pakistan appealed directly for the formation of a Court of Arbitration (CoA) as it claims India has violated the 1960 treaty.
“Inexplicably, the World Bank has decided to continue to proceed with these two parallel mechanisms simultaneously. India cannot be party to actions which are not in accordance with the Indus Waters Treaty,” said a statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson from Tokyo, shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed there. “The government will examine further options and take steps accordingly,” he said.
When asked if the strong language in the statement indicated India would consider cancelling the Indus Water Treaty arbitration process, or even, as it had threatened after the Uri attacks, would consider abrogating the treaty itself, a government source said, “The World Bank’s illegal action has brought into question the workability of the Indus Water Treaty.”
Dispute internationalised
The MEA statement came just hours before the World Bank was due to draw lots by which it selects “umpires” for the Court of Arbitration. On Tuesday, Pakistan’s Water and Power secretary Mohammad Dagha informed its Senate that the World Bank had begun the process requested by Pakistan under Arbitration Article IX of the Indus Water Treaty rather than India’s appeal for the Permanent Indus Commission (PIC) or at most a neutral expert to mediate on what India called “technical issues” with Pakistan.
Officials said the World Bank’s action of going ahead with Pakistan’s claim had escalated the differences into an international dispute. The Hindu has learnt that Mr. Modi held a high level meeting on the issue last week, where several senior officials proposed that India should pull out of the arbitration entirely unless the World Bank changes, what one official referred to as its “legally untenable” stance on Pakistan “intransigence”.
World Bank country director Junaid Ahmad, an official of Bangladeshi origin, is expected to speed up efforts at reconciling the matter in the next few days. “This is a matter of worry for us all,” a diplomat from a third country told The Hindu, indicating that the current military tensions between India and Pakistan, and the escalation in cross-border and cross-LoC firing was adding to the urgency of having the matter resolved.
 

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If India is trying to withdraw from water treaty, she will leave Pakistan no option but war.
What will war bring to others? Huge purchase order!!
There is nothing better than a war between two countries on saving everyone else.

The war itself will create demand to military equipment!
The rebuilding after the war will create huge demand on civilian goods!

Everyone will thank you.
Huge purchase order FROM INDIA to other nations other than china...

and huge Begging order from pakistan to china...and china have to oblige if it wants to keep the terrorists in pakistan happy else china knows where it will get hurt.

Everyone will screw you!!

Well!!! if china stays with pakistan..china wont get any piece of "demand" from India.
:D
 

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She will leave Pakistan no option but war.
And die like a bitch.


Learn the history of present day region now called "Pakistan" they have not won any single war in their entire recorded history of 3000 ~ years.


They were persecuted slaves and always remain under our boots by fearing us.
 

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Pakistan warns against use of water as an instrument of coercion

In an apparent reference to row over Indus Water Treaty, Pakistan has warned against use of water as an instrument of coercion or war and asserted that international community must remain vigilant to any sign of unwillingness to maintain cooperation on resolving water issues.

"The international community must assume a responsibility to develop, nurture and protect normative frameworks, at multilateral and bilateral levels, to ensure that states remain willing to resolve water issues cooperatively," Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi said in her address to the UN Security Council during an open debate on water, peace and security.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...strument-of-coercion/articleshow/55576905.cms

Those Porks warning us? Big lol. Dear Ms Lodhi......

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The New Indian Govt has found the jugular vein of pakistan ...
This is an old report dated JUNE..before even the Uri happened..so I think the GoI already knew where to hit pakistan to render it to collapse under its own arrogance..


Pakistan’s water experts fear for the country’s future
As its population explodes, Pakistan stares at a future where it will be a water scarce country, but currently there is little new thinking in the government on how to tackle the crisis


Dams, dams and more dams – of all sizes and kinds need to be built on a war footing because failing to do so would be disastrous for Pakistan. This was the vehement and unanimous conclusion from scientists, water experts, agriculturists and climatologists who gathered for a 2-day workshop titled, “The Indus Basin Challenge – The Need for a Collective Response”, organised by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in the latter half of May in Pakistan’s hilly tract of Bhurban.

Fears of water scarcity

“Pakistan will become water scarce by 2025,” pointed out Dr Ghulam Rasul, the director general of the, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). He recommended that, without wasting more time, Pakistan should come up with a water policy, build water storages and develop a mechanism to regulate and protect groundwater.


Map source: International Water Management Institute

In Pakistan water availability per person annually is just 1,017 cubic meters, dangerously close to 1,000 cubic meters, crossing which would mean the country is water scarce. NASA’s researchers found that of the planet’s 37 largest aquifers studied between 2003 and 2013 the Indus Basin aquifer is the second-most overstressed and was being depleted while receiving little to no recharge. It is also on the World Resource Institute‘s water stress index.



In a report – yet to be released – by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) it is apparently stated that the country touched the “water stress line” in 1990 and crossed the “water scarcity line” in 2005.

But can anything be done to turn the clock back?

“Unfortunately not,” said Arif Anwar, who heads the IWMI in Pakistan. “We have a certain population and our birth rate is changing rapidly. So the situation is really very desperate and acute.”

At present the country’s population is estimated to be around 190 million. By 2030 it will grow to 244m, and by 2100, Pakistan’s population is projected at 364m, states the World Population Prospects 2015. With a rising population the demand is going to increase. According to a 2015 IMF report the demand for water is on the rise and is projected to reach 274 million acre-feet (MAF) by 2025, while supply is expected to remain stagnant at 191 MAF, resulting in a demand-supply gap of approximately 83 MAF. At the same time, poor management of existing water resources, compounded by changing precipitation patterns due to global warming has made Pakistan susceptible to extreme floods, long spells of drought and increasing natural disasters. On Germanwatch’s Climate Risk Index, Pakistan is among the ten countries most affected by extreme weather events.

And this despite Pakistan being surrounded by 7,259 glaciers with 2,066 cubic kilometres of ice in the three mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Hindukush and Karakoram spanning 11,780 square kilometres. It is these glaciers that feed the mighty Indus and its 1.12 million square kilometre basin, 47% of which is in Pakistan and 39%, 8% and 6% in India, China and Afghanistan respectively. Pakistan’s agriculture accounts for 93% of water drawn from the Indus.



“Pakistan is heading to the water scarce value because of population increase not necessarily because the volume of water in the country has decreased,” said Anwar. He said that there were other countries in the world that were also water scarce. Giving the example of the Middle East, he said: “But they don’t depend on water as much as we do…they depend on oil. So it is a problem for us unless we can either develop our economy away from water, as say the Silicon Valley has done, or start to export people in very, very large numbers!” he quipped. :bs::facepalm::bplease:
Easier said than done

To work on water issues one needs to coordinate between multiple actors. “Water operates on many levels and at many scales. It has economic, legal and social ramifications. It is the concern of citizens, farmers, local and provincial governments, to name a few,” said Ahmad Rafay Alam, a leading environment lawyer. But with so many players and so many levels of water discourse, there is no single solution he said. “There, however, can be means of managing the chaos,” he added.

In the meanwhile there is little innovative thinking in the sector. “Water is dominated by engineers and by the government,” said Anwar. “The engineers tend to approach it from a hardware and technology side of things – let’s build more of this or that e.g. dams and more dams, they say.”

To compound the problem, the government does not allow the private sector – whether for-profit or not-for-profit firms – into water related issues. “The government feels it has a monopoly on good ideas as well as skills and capacity and so there is little innovative thinking in the water sector…just more of the same,” said Anwar.


He further said water was generally low on the agenda as compared to power and both were handled by the Water and Power Ministry. “Whereas dams are being constructed, largely for power, water is not high on the agenda. There are a large number of what are called rehabilitation projects. However, these are largely projects where we have allowed the infrastructure to decay to a level that they need a very large investment.” That’s where development banks step in to provide loans and the infrastructure is returned to its original level, he said.


“Some lip-service is paid to improving the management of water but it is an only half serious attempt; the focus remains on engineering because that is what engineers like to do,” said Anwar.

In all this it is the ordinary people who are experiencing the costs of water shortage.

Take the case of the southern port city of Karachi, also Pakistan’s most populated city. Long power outages have led to disruptions in water supply with protests and riots becoming a routine come summer when tempers and temperatures soar. “If water is not given to Karachi, we will change the geography of the province,” warned a spokesperson of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a political party, which held a rally on June 5, World Environment Day. The mismanagement – and huge demand – have also led to the proliferation of unethical actors. The Karachi Water Sewerage Board (KWSB) recently found that there were nearly 196 illegal hydrants across the city with seven million gallons of water being sold illegally.

No new dams, and groundwater depletion

No major dams have been constructed since the Tarbela in 1976. Along with Mangla the two major reservoirs in the Indus basin store only 14 MAF of the 145 MAF that flows through Pakistan annually, and that too only for 30 days. The international standard is 120 days.



At the same time, we are draining our last resort – the aquifers – faster than we can replenish them. The water table is falling at an alarming rate from one to ten feet per year at the canal command areas and almost all the urban centres. In 1960, there were about 20,000 tubewells; today there are over one million, lamented Muhammad Ashraf, chairman of the PCRWR. Nearly 50-55 MAF is pumped out, while 40-45 MAF is recharged. In the 1960s only about one MAF was pumped out.

He further said: “Anyone can install any number of wells of any capacity, at any depth and can pump any amount of water at any time”. There is no regulatory framework to manage groundwater.

Not only has the quantity of groundwater depleted, the water has been contaminated with industrial and municipal effluent. If groundwater in parts of Punjab and Sindh is laced with arsenic, in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa it has fluoride and nitrates.

…transboundary water sharing gets complicated

The situation is no better at the transboundary level. There is no mention of the groundwater distribution in the 1960 transboundary Indus Waters Treaty. When the water distribution treaty was being negotiated, there was little information about the Indus basin’s aquifers but now more than ever experts want the sharing of groundwater to be included.



“There is little research on the characteristics of aquifers underlying the Indus basin. Unless and until there is reliable and shared information about the aquifers, no sound policy or sharing mechanism can be devised and it would be foolish to think that IWT could be amended without the proper research to support an amendment,” said Alam, who has studied the treaty at length.

Transboundary mistrust


Limited access to water and climate data in the region, said Mirza Asif Baig, the Indus Water Commissioner, has only exacerbated the cooperative environment required for trans-boundary water dispute resolution between Pakistan and India.



At the moment, said Baig, hydrological data that is important for Pakistan and for which no additional data collection systems are required to be installed, are not being provided by India despite repeated requests from Pakistan.


“There are provisions for bilateral data sharing but these have been made ineffective by legal trickery thus making the Treaty operate in an environment of non-cooperation instead of co-operation.” He, however, made it clear that the flood data that is provided by India is useful for Pakistan but there are other data that are denied that are much required and its supply would definitely improve the working environment of the Permanent Indus Commission.

But this lack of information and data sharing is not only between India and Pakistan but persists within intra government departments.

This lack of information sharing, said Baig, has hampered the various government departments to plan, manage and develop what is essentially a shared river basin with the result it has “adversely affected the efforts being made to protect lives and property of people from vagaries of natural disasters such as floods”, he said.

But this lack of information and data sharing is not peculiar to India and Pakistan alone; it even exists between the different government departments within Pakistan who work in silos.

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The New Indian Govt has found the jugular vein of pakistan ...
This is an old report dated JUNE..before even the Uri happened..so I think the GoI already knew where to hit pakistan to render it to collapse under its own arrogance..


Pakistan’s water experts fear for the country’s future
As its population explodes, Pakistan stares at a future where it will be a water scarce country, but currently there is little new thinking in the government on how to tackle the crisis


Dams, dams and more dams – of all sizes and kinds need to be built on a war footing because failing to do so would be disastrous for Pakistan. This was the vehement and unanimous conclusion from scientists, water experts, agriculturists and climatologists who gathered for a 2-day workshop titled, “The Indus Basin Challenge – The Need for a Collective Response”, organised by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in the latter half of May in Pakistan’s hilly tract of Bhurban.

Fears of water scarcity

“Pakistan will become water scarce by 2025,” pointed out Dr Ghulam Rasul, the director general of the, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). He recommended that, without wasting more time, Pakistan should come up with a water policy, build water storages and develop a mechanism to regulate and protect groundwater.


Map source: International Water Management Institute

In Pakistan water availability per person annually is just 1,017 cubic meters, dangerously close to 1,000 cubic meters, crossing which would mean the country is water scarce. NASA’s researchers found that of the planet’s 37 largest aquifers studied between 2003 and 2013 the Indus Basin aquifer is the second-most overstressed and was being depleted while receiving little to no recharge. It is also on the World Resource Institute‘s water stress index.



In a report – yet to be released – by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) it is apparently stated that the country touched the “water stress line” in 1990 and crossed the “water scarcity line” in 2005.

But can anything be done to turn the clock back?

“Unfortunately not,” said Arif Anwar, who heads the IWMI in Pakistan. “We have a certain population and our birth rate is changing rapidly. So the situation is really very desperate and acute.”

At present the country’s population is estimated to be around 190 million. By 2030 it will grow to 244m, and by 2100, Pakistan’s population is projected at 364m, states the World Population Prospects 2015. With a rising population the demand is going to increase. According to a 2015 IMF report the demand for water is on the rise and is projected to reach 274 million acre-feet (MAF) by 2025, while supply is expected to remain stagnant at 191 MAF, resulting in a demand-supply gap of approximately 83 MAF. At the same time, poor management of existing water resources, compounded by changing precipitation patterns due to global warming has made Pakistan susceptible to extreme floods, long spells of drought and increasing natural disasters. On Germanwatch’s Climate Risk Index, Pakistan is among the ten countries most affected by extreme weather events.

And this despite Pakistan being surrounded by 7,259 glaciers with 2,066 cubic kilometres of ice in the three mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Hindukush and Karakoram spanning 11,780 square kilometres. It is these glaciers that feed the mighty Indus and its 1.12 million square kilometre basin, 47% of which is in Pakistan and 39%, 8% and 6% in India, China and Afghanistan respectively. Pakistan’s agriculture accounts for 93% of water drawn from the Indus.



“Pakistan is heading to the water scarce value because of population increase not necessarily because the volume of water in the country has decreased,” said Anwar. He said that there were other countries in the world that were also water scarce. Giving the example of the Middle East, he said: “But they don’t depend on water as much as we do…they depend on oil. So it is a problem for us unless we can either develop our economy away from water, as say the Silicon Valley has done, or start to export people in very, very large numbers!” he quipped. :bs::facepalm::bplease:
Easier said than done

To work on water issues one needs to coordinate between multiple actors. “Water operates on many levels and at many scales. It has economic, legal and social ramifications. It is the concern of citizens, farmers, local and provincial governments, to name a few,” said Ahmad Rafay Alam, a leading environment lawyer. But with so many players and so many levels of water discourse, there is no single solution he said. “There, however, can be means of managing the chaos,” he added.

In the meanwhile there is little innovative thinking in the sector. “Water is dominated by engineers and by the government,” said Anwar. “The engineers tend to approach it from a hardware and technology side of things – let’s build more of this or that e.g. dams and more dams, they say.”

To compound the problem, the government does not allow the private sector – whether for-profit or not-for-profit firms – into water related issues. “The government feels it has a monopoly on good ideas as well as skills and capacity and so there is little innovative thinking in the water sector…just more of the same,” said Anwar.


He further said water was generally low on the agenda as compared to power and both were handled by the Water and Power Ministry. “Whereas dams are being constructed, largely for power, water is not high on the agenda. There are a large number of what are called rehabilitation projects. However, these are largely projects where we have allowed the infrastructure to decay to a level that they need a very large investment.” That’s where development banks step in to provide loans and the infrastructure is returned to its original level, he said.


“Some lip-service is paid to improving the management of water but it is an only half serious attempt; the focus remains on engineering because that is what engineers like to do,” said Anwar.

In all this it is the ordinary people who are experiencing the costs of water shortage.

Take the case of the southern port city of Karachi, also Pakistan’s most populated city. Long power outages have led to disruptions in water supply with protests and riots becoming a routine come summer when tempers and temperatures soar. “If water is not given to Karachi, we will change the geography of the province,” warned a spokesperson of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a political party, which held a rally on June 5, World Environment Day. The mismanagement – and huge demand – have also led to the proliferation of unethical actors. The Karachi Water Sewerage Board (KWSB) recently found that there were nearly 196 illegal hydrants across the city with seven million gallons of water being sold illegally.

No new dams, and groundwater depletion

No major dams have been constructed since the Tarbela in 1976. Along with Mangla the two major reservoirs in the Indus basin store only 14 MAF of the 145 MAF that flows through Pakistan annually, and that too only for 30 days. The international standard is 120 days.



At the same time, we are draining our last resort – the aquifers – faster than we can replenish them. The water table is falling at an alarming rate from one to ten feet per year at the canal command areas and almost all the urban centres. In 1960, there were about 20,000 tubewells; today there are over one million, lamented Muhammad Ashraf, chairman of the PCRWR. Nearly 50-55 MAF is pumped out, while 40-45 MAF is recharged. In the 1960s only about one MAF was pumped out.

He further said: “Anyone can install any number of wells of any capacity, at any depth and can pump any amount of water at any time”. There is no regulatory framework to manage groundwater.

Not only has the quantity of groundwater depleted, the water has been contaminated with industrial and municipal effluent. If groundwater in parts of Punjab and Sindh is laced with arsenic, in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa it has fluoride and nitrates.

…transboundary water sharing gets complicated

The situation is no better at the transboundary level. There is no mention of the groundwater distribution in the 1960 transboundary Indus Waters Treaty. When the water distribution treaty was being negotiated, there was little information about the Indus basin’s aquifers but now more than ever experts want the sharing of groundwater to be included.



“There is little research on the characteristics of aquifers underlying the Indus basin. Unless and until there is reliable and shared information about the aquifers, no sound policy or sharing mechanism can be devised and it would be foolish to think that IWT could be amended without the proper research to support an amendment,” said Alam, who has studied the treaty at length.

Transboundary mistrust


Limited access to water and climate data in the region, said Mirza Asif Baig, the Indus Water Commissioner, has only exacerbated the cooperative environment required for trans-boundary water dispute resolution between Pakistan and India.



At the moment, said Baig, hydrological data that is important for Pakistan and for which no additional data collection systems are required to be installed, are not being provided by India despite repeated requests from Pakistan.


“There are provisions for bilateral data sharing but these have been made ineffective by legal trickery thus making the Treaty operate in an environment of non-cooperation instead of co-operation.” He, however, made it clear that the flood data that is provided by India is useful for Pakistan but there are other data that are denied that are much required and its supply would definitely improve the working environment of the Permanent Indus Commission.

But this lack of information and data sharing is not only between India and Pakistan but persists within intra government departments.

This lack of information sharing, said Baig, has hampered the various government departments to plan, manage and develop what is essentially a shared river basin with the result it has “adversely affected the efforts being made to protect lives and property of people from vagaries of natural disasters such as floods”, he said.

But this lack of information and data sharing is not peculiar to India and Pakistan alone; it even exists between the different government departments within Pakistan who work in silos.

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Pakistan warns against use of water as an instrument of coercion

In an apparent reference to row over Indus Water Treaty, Pakistan has warned against use of water as an instrument of coercion or war and asserted that international community must remain vigilant to any sign of unwillingness to maintain cooperation on resolving water issues.

"The international community must assume a responsibility to develop, nurture and protect normative frameworks, at multilateral and bilateral levels, to ensure that states remain willing to resolve water issues cooperatively," Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi said in her address to the UN Security Council during an open debate on water, peace and security.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...strument-of-coercion/articleshow/55576905.cms

Those Porks warning us? Big lol. Dear Ms Lodhi......

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The most they can do is go crying to their Ammi and Abbu, UN and PRC LOL.
I've an Idea, just for the sake of giving chills and Nightmares to Pakistan, we should "missfire" by "accident" a couple of brahmos across LOC onto a Terrorist Camp. And say that it was an accidental fire.
 

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INDIA'S WATERS CAN'T BE ALLOWED TO FLOW INTO PAK: PM NARENDRA MODI ON INDUS ROW


Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at an event in Punjab's Bhatinda
Bhatinda
: In election-bound Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that Indus river waters "belong to our farmers" and India has the right to the waters flowing into Pakistan.
"The Indus waters, India has the right to those waters...it flows into Pakistan. Flowing through Pakistan, the water goes into the sea. That water belongs to the Indian farmers. We will do whatever we can to give enough water to our farmers," PM Modi said at a rally in Bathinda.
Taking a swipe at the Congress, he said: "Governments came and went in Delhi... no one paid attention to the problems of the farmer. Pakistan took full advantage of this, but not anymore. I will ensure that my farmers get what is rightfully theirs."
He also commented that after India's surgical strikes, "Pakistan didn't know what hit it'. The country is yet to recover from the strike, he said of the operation carried out by the army in September targeting terrorist staging areas in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
The 1960 Indus Waters treaty brokered by the World Bank, on the sharing of the waters of six rivers between the two countries, became a flash point after the Uri attack in which 19 Indian soldiers were killed by terrorists from Pakistan. PM Modi then signaled a review of the pact, saying "blood and water cannot flow together."
The Indus Waters Treaty gives India rights to use the eastern rivers - Ravi, Sutlej and Beas - and Pakistan has control over the three western rivers, Chenab, Jhelum and Indus.
India has asked for a neutral expert to examine Islamabad's complaint against hydroelectric power projects on the rivers that flow into Pakistan. Pakistan has, at the same time, asked for an international court of arbitration.
Pakistan warned India at the UN Security Council against using water as 'an instrument of coercion or war".

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indi...nto-pak-pm-narendra-modi-on-indus-row-1630060
 

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