Amidst the departure of Cho Masa and the arrival of cold weather, political tensions are heating up in the waters of the Jhelum, Beas and Ravi rivers, and the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan is running out of steam. It is said that World War III will be fought over water. At present, there are rumors of friction between India and Pakistan in this matter. The implications of India sending a notice to Pakistan on the issue of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) i.e. Indus Water Treaty are very serious. Regarding this 64-year-old treaty, Delhi has sought the response of the neighboring country and has started talking about amending it. India cites a growing population and environment as an important issue for reforming the treaty: cross-border infiltration of terrorists by Pakistan and increasing attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. In this agreement, the decision-making body is in the hands of Delhi. If it is used, then Pakistan will go into the quagmire of disaster. To understand this situation better, one has to take a stroll back to the partition days of 1947. There was a geographical boundary between the two countries. But who has the right to the water of the river flowing through both the countries? In 1960, our then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the first military dictator of Pakistan, President Mohammad Ayub Khan, signed a coin in 1960 through the mediation of the World Bank so that the country, which was constantly facing each other, could live peacefully. Accordingly, India gained control over the three eastern rivers – Ravi, Beas and Sutlej. While three rivers – Indus, Chenab and Jhelum – went to the account of Pakistan. But the implementation of this agreement is not as easy as it appears in words. Let's dive into the deeper waters of agreement. India can use the water of the eastern rivers unrestricted, while the water of the western rivers can be fully used by Pakistan. However, India was allowed to use the water of the western rivers for irrigation, storage and power generation, which we have not used yet. Briefly, it can be said that in the water treaty, 80 percent of the water of six rivers was allotted to Pakistan. But, but, but, but… we can stop the flow of river water from India, build dams and divert the flow. Pakistan has this flutter since birth. That is why its leaders are suffering from mental deficiency and cannot stop calling and challenging India. The prevailing scenario can be better explained by Colonel Manish Katchi, a former officer of the Indian Army who served for years in military intelligence. Manishbhai says, '83.5 percent of Pakistan's fresh water requirement comes from India. This supply comes from the western rivers Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. Of the remaining 15 percent of Pakistan's water requirement, 12 percent comes from Afghanistan's rivers. So Pakistan has barely five percent water that can be called its own. They have no water management or storage system. Their economy is unable to build infrastructure like dams. There is no doubt that if India gets really aggressive, there will be chaos in Pakistan's economy, living system and the daily life of the citizens. Yes, maintaining the rivers that supply water to Pakistan is not free. However, if the stupid neighbor puts dung on us, rains bullets, throws bombs and injects RDX, how long will we keep the hump of humanity-goodness? Why? Secondly, why did Pakistan not become self-reliant even after the treaty signed six and a half decades ago? Instead of being a bull, they have to show a special certificate when they gobble their horns every day like a brown bull. There have been tensions between India and Pakistan over water. In 1948, India stopped all river-dam supplies to Pakistan, but later resumed. In 1951, India accused Pakistan of making many of its villages thirsty. In 1954, the World Bank proposed a water treaty between the two nations. After the water treaty in 1960, Pakistan has not been rich. Pakistan opposed India's hydropower projects in Kashmir in the 1970s. In 1984, when the Tulbul project was started on the Jhelum river, Pakistan raised an uproar and India put a brake on the project. In 2007, Pakistan launched a boycott against the Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project. In 2008, Lashkar-e-Tayib terrorist Hafiz Saeed accused India of water terrorism. In 2010, Pakistan repeatedly accused India of stopping water supply. After the Uri attack in 2016, India initiated a review of the Indus Water Treaty. Gangs including Jagat Jamadar may sing the pitiful chorus of human rights, but to straighten out the mad dogs, Delhi must spring the water-weapon, if not today, tomorrow. The only condition is that if Pakistan stops shedding the blood of innocents, its thirst will be quenched. Verna… some pundits warn against taking strong action against Pakistan lest one forgets what China will do in this situation. Admittedly, the water of Brahmaputra and its tributaries in India comes through China. From the surface, it seems at first glance that if China blocks the water of Brahmaputra by building a dam or demolishes the dam, there will be chaos in North India. But if we stand on the real ground and think, we get a different fact. Brahmaputra is such a big river that China cannot stop all its water. For the sake of its own political interest, the Chinese dragon will strike. However, there will not be a situation where the states of North East will die of thirst. India has already built a potable water system here. Online-Offline In 1990, as Brigadier Pervez Musharraf said that India-Pakistan friction has its roots in the waters of the Indus. As a dictator in 2019, General Musharraf said that Kashmir is in the blood of the country of Pakistan. In 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a short and to-the-point answer: Blood and water cannot flow together.
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Now-a-days: Pakistan needs to be straightened out by throwing water bombs!
