Pakistan will consider India's attempt to divert water flow an act of aggression: FO

[Xestan]

Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal on Thursday said Pakistan had "exclusive rights" over three Western rivers, adding that any attempt by India to divert the flow of these rivers would be considered an "act of aggression".

While addressing a weekly press briefing, the FO spokesperson was asked a question regarding Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent remarks to stop water flowing to Pakistan.

According to Times of India, addressing a rally, Modi had said his government would stop the water flowing to Pakistan and divert it to Haryana "as it rightfully belongs to the country and the farmers of the state".

Dr Faisal today said: "After imposing a crushing curfew and disconnecting the Kashmir Valley for more than two months now, some statements coming from [the] Indian leadership are another glaring example of the fact that the present government of India is bent upon making India an irresponsible, aggressive state that has no regard for human rights or international obligations."

The FO spokesperson said that Pakistan had "exclusive rights" over the waters of three Western rivers under the Indus Water Treaty.

"Any attempt by India to divert the flows of these rivers will be considered an act of aggression and Pakistan has the right to respond."

Tensions between the neighbouring countries escalated following the Indian government's decision to unilaterally revoke Article 370 of its constitution — which granted special autonomy to occupied Kashmir — and intensified ceasefire violations by India on the Line of Control.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1511372/p...-to-divert-water-flow-an-act-of-aggression-fo

 

[war&peace]

Please include the source. That's the redline and I'm glad some good response from Pakistan came. We should stop acting like peace doves and speak up for our rights and be ready to take actions.

 

[Xestan]

Please include the source

Added.

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Its about time Pakistan starts working on tectonic weapons with their EEZ in sight..or maybe they already have one.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Modi is a compulsive liar and a shrewd politician, fares well in India with a vast majority of Indians having the lowest IQ in the world, save some educated class or upper middle class, so much evident here in PDF about their thinking levels.

-As the elections are coming in Haryana Modi said he will stop the water to Pakistan and divert it to Haryana(Anti Pakistan rhetoric and water are big election winners in India, specially in Haryana, Punjab)

-If the elections were coming in Indian Punjab or for that matter in Rajhastan India, Modi would have said the same thing, replace Haryana with Indian Punjab, or Rajhastan.

-Modi and the BBP leaders are saying the same thing for the last six years just to win electorates.

- And about 80% of water in Indus system comes from glacial melt and they cannot be stopped by India as most of the catchment area/glacial area is in Pakistan, and very small percentage of it is in India.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...6b4cd4-4882-11e6-8dac-0c6e4accc5b1_story.html

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Modi is a compulsive liar and a shrewd politician, fares well in India with a vast majority of Indians having the lowest IQ in the world, save some educated class or upper middle class, so much evident here in PDF about their thinking levels.

-As the elections are coming in Haryana Modi said he wills top the water to Pakistan and divert it to Haryana(Anti Pakistan rhetoric and water are big election winners in India, specially in Haryana, Punjab)

-If the elections wee coming in Indian Punjab or for that matter in Rajhastan India, Modi would have said the same thing, replace Haryana with Indian Punjab, or Rajhastan.

-Modi and the BBP leaders are saying the same thing for the last six years just to win electorates.

- And about 80% of water in Indus system comes from glacial melt and they cannot be stopped by India as most of the catchment area/glacial area is in Pakistan, and very small percentage of it is in India.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...6b4cd4-4882-11e6-8dac-0c6e4accc5b1_story.html

Can you paste the content of the link here..

 

[maithil]

As if Modi cares about what Pakistan considers aggression. If current Pakistani government could not do anything concrete after 370, Modi knows how they will make some noises at most.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Can you paste the content of the link here..

Asia & Pacific
Pakistan has more glaciers than almost anywhere on Earth. But they are at risk.



By Tim Craig
August 12, 2016
heavier summer rainstorms and rampant deforestation.

[Energy shortages force Pakistanis to scavenge for wood, threatening tree canopy]

To many, the 1,000-square-mile Chitral Valley has become a case study of what could await the rest of the world if climate change accelerates, turning life-supporting mountains into new markers of human misery.

“It’s already happening here, and my thinking is, in the coming years it will just go from bad to worse,” said Bashir Ahmed Wani, a Pakistani forestry specialist with the Asian Development Bank.

hack into the glaciers — or scoop up the pre-glacial snow — and load the haul into their jeeps and trucks. Back in the valley, they shovel the snow and ice into shopping bags and sell it for 50 cents a bag.

“There are no fans, no refrigerators working, so I will store this for cooler water and then use it for drinking,” said Ubaid Ureh, 46, as he held two dripping bags.

Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Project, said Pakistani law does not make it clear whether the government or the public owns the country’s vast glacial reservoirs.

“We are trying to initiate a dialogue with the local people, but these are poor people,” he said, noting that glaciers in the neighboring territory of Gilgit-Baltistan are also being sold off.

Other scientists play down the threat, saying there are so many glaciers in Pakistan that it’s like taking water from an ocean. But even they admit that the sight of desperate families waiting to buy snow underscores the challenges facing this valley.

Ghulam Rasul, head of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, said the country’s weather patterns have shifted dramatically over the past two decades.

When 30-year temperature averages from 1961 to 1990 are compared with those from 1981 to 2010, temperatures in the northern third of Pakistan, where the glaciers are located, increased by 1.2 degrees Celsius, Rasul said.

Summer snow lines on Pakistan’s mountains have also crept up an average of 3,395 feet since 1981, he added. And the number of glacial lakes — which form when melting ice gets locked up in or around a glacier — has jumped from 2,420 a decade ago to 3,044 today, according to a recent study.

[Life in a Pakistani village so remote, kings once banished prisoners to it]

Equally alarming, Rasul said, the annual South Asia monsoon is growing more dynamic as temperatures spike over land and clash with cooler ocean waters. Now, instead of the late summer monsoon affecting mainly southern and eastern Pakistan, it has also been pumping deluges over the mountains.

“I believe this is an impact of global warming,” Rasul said. “If this continues, the glaciers will be melting at a fast rate, producing glacial lakes — and the lakes will burst,” triggering disasters.

The weather changes have not seriously threatened the ice packs in Pakistan’s northernmost regions, where five of the world’s 14 highest peaks — all topping 26,000 feet — are located.

Chitral’s glaciers to melt.

Arshad Abbasi, a water and energy expert, said Pakistanis alone are responsible for their plight.

He noted that tree roots stabilize the ground that the glaciers bind to — and that Pakistan has retained just 2 to 5 percent of its tree cover. Even worse, he said, goat herders, tourists and even the country’s army are allowed to trek over them.

“People say global warming, but in fact, it’s human activity” that most threatens the glaciers, said Abbasi, who has studied the effect of Pakistani and Indian military encampments on the shrinking Siachen Glacier in the Himalayan range near the disputed Kashmir region.

Local activists agree that lax environmental standards are magnifying the danger. Inayatullah Faizi, an expert on local culture, noted that much of Chitral’s garbage and sewage is dumped directly into streams and the Chitral River — another reason residents buy snow from the glacier.

Aisha Khan, head of the Islamabad-based Mountain and Glacier Protection Organization, said a huge conservation campaign is needed to combat public ignorance. She noted that many mountain-area families still try to make glaciers grow by “fertilizing them,” cutting ice from a dark, debris-clogged glacier (male) and setting it next to a clear one (female).

Still, there are signs that younger Pakistanis, even in remote places, are realizing what is at stake.

Beekeepers collect honey last month from hives they have set up by a roadside in the Chitral Valley. (Insiya Syed /For The Washington Post)
In Sonoghur, a small village north of Miragram that was devastated by a glacial lake flood in 2007, a middle-aged man began telling a reporter that India and Israel are responsible for glaciers melting because they don’t want overwhelmingly Muslim Pakistan “to grow and prosper.”

But Amir Shahzaib, 17, spoke up.

“We don’t believe that, and our new generation wants to take care of the earth,” he said, adding that he and his friends were trying to get older residents to stop throwing plastic bottles in waterways.

They can’t do it all, he added.

“We are just partly responsible for climate change,” Shahzaib said of his village. “Mostly, the city people are responsible.”



Aamir Iqbal in Peshawar contributed to this report.

 

[Jinn Baba]

Regrettably, after Pakistan and the international community did F all re Kashmir, the Indians reasonably assume they can get away with this too.

 

[NeptuneShadow]

Pakistan needs to stand firm and use full force if needed. No one care about ethics, moral and peace. Peace is weak's justification and Pakistan is not weak at all. IK must understand One has to fight for himself.

 

[Baz]

Pakistan needs to stand firm and use full force if needed. No one care about ethics, moral and peace. Peace is weak's justification and Pakistan is not weak at all. IK must understand One has to fight for himself.

Now you are going to tell IK what to do ? get a life.

 

[Yaseen1]

india end is near,they have conflicts and problems with all neighbors including Pakistan,china and now bangladesh

 

[Baghial]

Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal on Thursday said Pakistan had "exclusive rights" over three Western rivers, adding that any attempt by India to divert the flow of these rivers would be considered an "act of aggression".

While addressing a weekly press briefing, the FO spokesperson was asked a question regarding Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent remarks to stop water flowing to Pakistan.

According to Times of India, addressing a rally, Modi had said his government would stop the water flowing to Pakistan and divert it to Haryana "as it rightfully belongs to the country and the farmers of the state".

Dr Faisal today said: "After imposing a crushing curfew and disconnecting the Kashmir Valley for more than two months now, some statements coming from [the] Indian leadership are another glaring example of the fact that the present government of India is bent upon making India an irresponsible, aggressive state that has no regard for human rights or international obligations."

The FO spokesperson said that Pakistan had "exclusive rights" over the waters of three Western rivers under the Indus Water Treaty.

"Any attempt by India to divert the flows of these rivers will be considered an act of aggression and Pakistan has the right to respond."

Tensions between the neighbouring countries escalated following the Indian government's decision to unilaterally revoke Article 370 of its constitution — which granted special autonomy to occupied Kashmir — and intensified ceasefire violations by India on the Line of Control.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1511372/p...-to-divert-water-flow-an-act-of-aggression-fo

imran khan should run to UNGA...and deliver another speech......on water now

because speeches are the only thing modi listen,s toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Kabira]

Modi is a compulsive liar and a shrewd politician, fares well in India with a vast majority of Indians having the lowest IQ in the world, save some educated class or upper middle class, so much evident here in PDF about their thinking levels.

-As the elections are coming in Haryana Modi said he wills stop the water to Pakistan and divert it to Haryana(Anti Pakistan rhetoric and water are big election winners in India, specially in Haryana, Punjab)

-If the elections were coming in Indian Punjab or for that matter in Rajhastan India, Modi would have said the same thing, replace Haryana with Indian Punjab, or Rajhastan.

-Modi and the BBP leaders are saying the same thing for the last six years just to win electorates.

- And about 80% of water in Indus system comes from glacial melt and they cannot be stopped by India as most of the catchment area/glacial area is in Pakistan, and very small percentage of it is in India.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...6b4cd4-4882-11e6-8dac-0c6e4accc5b1_story.html

Which is why selling 3 eastern rivers to India was crimnal act back then. Not only Pakistan rulers back then didnt think about water security, including Jinnah. But also later on sold 3 eastern rivers in treaty instead of securing minimum amount of flow all year around.

 

[El Sidd]

It is an act of war.

I demand that the parliament is moved to build a consensus and make India aware that such an act would be considered an existential threat for Pakistan and will be met with an iron fist.

Meanwhile I urge closer cooperation with China to ensure Sino-Pak water security.