How Pakistan is quietly turning water into a weapon against India

[BlackIndian]

Have you heard any Chinese say——"China is a super power"?

China strong India wrong ci ba.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

China strong India wrong ci ba.

The Times of India, Rediff ... Often this article published?

 

[BlackIndian]

The Times of India, Rediff ... Often this article published?

Don't use google translator. I cannot understand super Chinese man.

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

This thread made me

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Don't use google translator. I cannot understand super Chinese man.

OK, I hope you a happy life in the PDF, the Chinese did not claim to be "superpower". In fact we never claim... The Chinese can't accept this
. Don't thinking about a visit to China & Far East section in a look?

 

[BlackIndian]

OK, I hope you a happy life in the PDF, the Chinese did not claim to be "superpower". In fact we never claim... The Chinese can't accept this
. Don't thinking about a visit to China & Far East section in a look?

I accept you as superpower my chainess frand.

 

[Paranoid Android]

Don't use google translator. I cannot understand super Chinese man.

you are a victim of identity crisis...It's funny what Pakistanis can do to amuse themselves..

 

[SBUS-CXK]

I accept you as superpower my chainess frand.

I'm very glad to as your friend. But I think you have some misconceptions about China, probably because Times of India reports misled you... Wish you were here to see the truth. In fact, most of the Indian friend and I chat, can change their former views.

 

[BlackIndian]

I'm very glad to as your friend. But I think you have some misconceptions about China, probably because Times of India reports misled you... Wish you were here to see the truth. In fact, most of the Indian friend and I chat, can change their former views.

I love China. I love Chinese food. I love Chinese women.

you are a victim of identity crisis...It's funny what Pakistanis can do to amuse themselves..

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...up-in-US-study-finds/articleshow/54380602.cms

 

[Paranoid Android]

I love China. I love Chinese food. I love Chinese women.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...up-in-US-study-finds/articleshow/54380602.cms

None of my concern..

 

[coffee_cup]

The violence-marred water feud between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu illustrates how water stress is fuelling bitter discord between states over sharing the most vital of all natural resources.

The Supreme Court intervened this year too in the Punjab-Haryana dispute in the Indus Basin over the Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal.

The growing inter-provincial water wrangles draw attention to India's great water folly in 1960: It signed a treaty that allocated to an enemy state, Pakistan, most of the Indus river system waters, without any quid pro quo. The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) reserved for India just 19.48% of the total waters of the six-river Indus system.

An emboldened Pakistan, having secured what still ranks as the world's most generous water-sharing treaty, set its sights on capturing the Indian part of Jammu and Kashmirthrough which the three large rivers reserved for Pakistani use by the IWT flowed.

In more recent years, Pakistan has also found novel ways to turn the IWT into a weapon against India. From waging conventional wars against India from almost the time it was created to sustaining a protracted proxy war by terror against it, Pakistan has for over a decade now been pursuing a "water war" strategy against India.

This strategy centres on repeatedly invoking the IWT's conflict-resolution provisions to "internationalise" any perceived disagreement so as to mount pressure on India.

In its latest move to corner India, Pakistan has initiated steps to haul it before a seven-member international arbitral tribunal in The Hague for pursuing two hydropower projects in J&K. Twice before in the past decade, Pakistan triggered international intercession by similarly invoking the treaty's conflict-resolution provisions.

Pakistan's strategy, coupled with its use of state-reared terrorists, could potentially force India's hand. If India begins to view the IWT as a liability and sees itself as the suffering loser, little can save the treaty.

After all, India has the option in international law to dissolve the lopsided but indefinite treaty. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was also of indefinite duration but the US unilaterally withdrew from it after Russia opposed its revision.

The withdrawal option, however, cannot be exercised by a risk-averse nation. India may be parched today but there is still no national discussion about how Pakistan is repaying India's water largesse with blood by sponsoring cross-border acts of grisly terrorism.

The water card is probably the most potent instrument India has in its arsenal - more powerful than the nuclear option, which essentially is for deterrence.

India's belated moves to address the problem of electricity shortages and underdevelopment in J&K by building modestly sized, run-of-river hydropower plants have rankled Pakistan, although the IWT permits such projects (which use a river's natural flow energy and elevation drop to produce electricity, without the need for any dam reservoir).

The treaty requires India to provide Pakistan with prior notification, including design information, of any new project. Although prior notification does not mean the other party's prior consent, Pakistan has construed the condition as arming it with a veto power over Indian works.

To keep unrest in J&K simmering, it has objected to virtually every Indian project. Its obstruction has delayed Indian projects for years, driving up their costs substantially.


Not surprisingly, there have been repeated calls in the J&K assembly for revision or abrogation of the IWT. By gifting the state's river waters to Pakistan, the treaty has hampered development there and fostered popular grievance.

J&K's total hydropower-generating capacity in operation or under construction does not equal the size of a single mega-dam that Pakistan is currently pursuing, such as the 7,000 MW Bunji Dam or the 4,500 MW Bhasha Dam. Indeed, while railing against India's run-of-river projects, Pakistan has invited China to build mega-dams in the Pakistani-occupied part of J&K, itself troubled by discontent, including against the growing Chinese footprint there, especially in Gilgit-Baltistan.

A 2011 report prepared for the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee called the IWT "the world's most successful water treaty" for having withstood conflicts and wars. The treaty has been a success mainly because of India, which has continued to uphold the pact even when Pakistan has repeatedly waged aggression and fundamentally altered the circumstances of cooperation.

International law recognises that a party may withdraw from a treaty in the event of fundamentally changed circumstances.

Pakistan's continuing use of state-reared terrorist groups against India constitutes reasonable grounds for the injured party to unilaterally withdraw from the IWT. Sustained sponsorship of cross-border terrorism over many years has created fundamentally changed circumstances that undermine the essential basis of India's original consent to the IWT, while significantly altering the balance of obligations.

The Indus is Pakistan's jugular vein. If India wishes to improve Pakistan's behaviour and dissuade it from exporting more terrorists, it should hold out a credible threat of dissolving the IWT, drawing a clear linkage between Pakistan's right to unimpeded water inflows and its responsibility not to cause harm to its upper riparian.

A failure to respect that linkage should free India, for example, to link the Chenab (which has the largest transboundary flow) with the Ravi-Beas-Sutlej system to address water scarcity in its north.

How clever, not even once mentioned how India has been exporting state sponsored cross-border terrorism in the neigbborhood for over the past half century and has aided terrorists such as Mukti Bahini, LTTE, BLA, TTP etc.

This is the root cause of all problems in the neighborhood, neghbors are at some time bound to retalate.

Having said that, it is old Indian habbit to blame for anything and everything on Pakistna, as they say, even if a woman gets pregnant in India, it is Pakistan and ISI who is blamed for that....!

 

[rishav]

@Two bro you are a super power , you are number 1 in so many sectors and soon will become in other sectors . yes i love this thing about chinese that they dont brag much (except chinese in pdf(most)) , they do their job silently , we indians should learn these things from you guys . becoz we jump up and down a lot even for small things. if there is more people to people interaction between our countries ,you will see that we can mingle together quite well. politically we may remain rivals but our people to people relations will always be good .

 

[coffee_cup]

Stoping Pakistan's water is a plain declaration of war.

I don't think anyone in the world and particularly in sub-continent wants that.

 

[Pakistan First]

The water card is probably the most potent instrument India has in its arsenal - more powerful than the nuclear option.

The Indus is Pakistan's jugular vein.

The only two sentences which sum-up the crux of the whole issue. Rest is cosmetics and subjective.

Since the past several years, there has been a lot of talk within different circles in Pakistan that the next war with India WILL be over water.

 

[M.Ghaznavi]

Pakistan knows that we control their jugular vein. Being lower riparian they will always feel threatened. We can always play the water card as the last resort. Now is not the time. They are suffering as it is with their internal wars for past few decades. No need to stir the pot when they are mired with their own problems.