ISLAMABAD – A recent foreign media report has revealed that the Modi-ledIndian government is planning to stop Pakistan’s share of river water fromflowing into Pakistan by the end of this year.
As per the report, Indian authorities are working on a plan to stop 2 TMCof water from the Ujh River, a branch of Ravi, flowing through the Kathuadistrict of Indian Occupied Kashmir.——————————
The story has also been reported in the Indian media, claiming that theIndian government has been presented a report in this regard. Animplementation of the plan awaits government approval.
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and his several ministers haveretreated this threat in the past.
Last year, after creating Pulwama drama to frame Pakistan, Modi and hisministers began to threaten Pakistan with water terrorism. Modi haspreviously claimed that India will block Pakistan’s water supply in thenear future.——————————
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“For 70 years, the water which belongs to India and the farmers of Haryanaflowed to Pakistan. Modi will stop this water and bring it to your houses,”Modi told an animated crowd in Haryana in October last year.
Earlier in February 2019, the Union Minister for Transport and WaterResources, Nitin Gadkari, had repeated the same mantra, saying that theywere planning to construct three dams in Uttarakhand to halt India’s unusedshare of river water from flowing to Pakistan.——————————
It should be noted that India is bound to share river water with Pakistanunder the 1960’s Indus Waters Treaty brokered by the World Bank. It definesthe formula of water sharing between the two countries.
