Indus Water Treaty

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 14 Feb 2010 01:00

On the basis which Paki's are breeding and inbreeding however you interpret (without any hint of conservation or heed to resources), it's prudent to advise them to go for date, palm tree cultivation like in Arab lands. Bring them ever closer to the ummah. May the Thar expand West and north west with vigor. Inshallah Pukistan will look soon look like another Dubai or Jeddah. Wasn't their wettest dream being to emulate the Arab and the finest cities in ME? Allah grants the pious what they wish.

Not one media outlet in Pakistan has analyzed the excessive population explosion in Pukistan, stealing of waters by one province Pakjab as major causes of water shortfall. The IWT was negotiated 40 years ago when pukes numbered just around 35 million. Now they've bred to 180 million and in another 50 will be 500 million. Mother Himalayas too has no solution to such inbreeding efficiency.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 14 Feb 2010 01:08

Theo_Fidel wrote:
SSridhar wrote:Pakistan concerned over Afghan dam on River Kabul

The sad thing is that it more likely to affect Sindh than Pakjab. Only India has the power to drain that particular swamp.

Inshallah , that'll happen very soon. The price of Indian blood will be Pakistani water.

Bheem · Post by **Bheem** » 14 Feb 2010 13:37

Sridhar can you tell, how much water India can use in say (MAF) from western rivers for irrigation etc

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 14 Feb 2010 14:28

A reminder from terrorists

At a rally in Islamabad on February 5 to denounce the idea of an India-Pakistan dialogue, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa deputy chief, Abdur Rehman Makki, posted warning of Pune being a target. “Kashmir had become a cold issue. But by denying Pakistan water, India has ensured that every farmer in Punjab is lining up with his tractor and plough, ready to overrun India.” At one time, jihadis were interested only in the liberation of Kashmir, but the water issue had ensured that “Delhi, Pune and Kanpur” were all fair targets, The Hindu’s correspondent in Islamabad, Nirup

Theo_Fidel · Post by **Theo_Fidel** » 14 Feb 2010 22:16

harbans wrote:Now they've bred to 180 million and in another 50 will be 500 million. Mother Himalayas too has no solution to such inbreeding efficiency.

Actually Mother Himalayas has always had the ultimate solution to these issues.

See link below.

Indus Landslides

Over last 10,000 years or so over 300 catastrophic mega landslides have occurred in the indus. Some of the major ones have completely cut off the flow for decades at a time. There is evidence of one near Chilas that created a dam roughly 3 kilometer wide and a lake 1000 meters deep. It impounded roughly 400-500 MAF of water over 10-15 years and then released it in a catastrophic flood with a flow rate of 40 million cusecs, roughly 200 times the flow of the Niagara over 3 days.

This is not even the largest such event. Just the one with the best evidence.

Periodic ice dams that collapse are also a feature of the valley system.

There is some evidence that just such events ended the Indus Valley Civilization.

The only solution would be for the 100 million to migrate or die. One guess as to where they will be coming.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Feb 2010 07:47

Bheem wrote:. . . can you tell, how much water India can use in say (MAF) from western rivers for irrigation etc

From IWT (ANNEXURE C-AGRICULTURAL USE BY INDIA FROM THE WESTERN RIVERS
(Article III(2)(c)),

3. India may withdraw from the Chenab Main such waters as India may need for Agricultural Use on the following canals limited to the maximum withdrawals noted against each:

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Maximum Withdrawals for
     Name of Canal                Agriculturall Use
(a) Ranbir Canal... 1,000 cusecs from 15th April to 14th October, and
                    350 cusecs from 15th October to 14th April.
(b) Pratap Canal... 400 cusecs from 15th April to 14th October, and
                    100 cusecs from 15th October to 14th April

4. Apart from the irrigation from the Ranbir and Pratap Canals under the provisions of Paragraph 3, India may continue to irrigate from the Western Rivers those areas which were so irrigated as on the Effective Date.

The Treaty permits India to draw water from the Western rivers for irrigation of 642,000 Acres that existed on the date of the treaty and in addition an entitlement to irrigate an Irrigated Cropped Area (ICA) of 701,000 acres. The break-up (in Acres) on the various Western rivers is as follows:

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India's Irrigation Entitlement on Western Rivers
The Indus	Jhelum	  Chenab	  Total
70,000	   400,000	 231,000   701,000

Of these, less than 500,000 acres are irrigated by canals in J&K, which is less than one-third of the permitted limit of 1, 343,000 acres.

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Feb 2010 08:29

^^^ In other words given that India’s water entitlement is in area terms (ie: 1.3 million acres) and not in water volume terms, there is nothing that stops India from growing the most water intensive crops the soil and climate conditions permit.

Would that be a correct surmise

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Feb 2010 08:35

arun wrote:The dominant Punjabis of Pakistan having been thwarted in their attempt to deprive the minority Sindhi’s and Balochi’s of their legitimate share of water leave in a huff:

Punjab walks out of Irsa meeting

My own take is that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s shrill screeching about India depriving them of water is a ploy to divert attention of the Sindhi’s and Balochi’s from the water theft of Pakistan’s Punjabi’s.

Meanwhile more screeching from the Nation which hardly surprisingly is headquartered in Pakistan’s Punjab province besides being Pakistani Punjabi owned:

Indian water aggression: Pakistan on brink of disaster

More attempts by the dominant Punjabi’s of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan once again via the Punjab headquartered newspaper The Nation to divert the attention of the Sindhi’s and Pathans of Punjabs theft of their water by screeching about India:

India’s water terrorism

Theo_Fidel · Post by **Theo_Fidel** » 15 Feb 2010 08:49

SSridhar wrote:
Bheem wrote:. . . can you tell, how much water India can use in say (MAF) from western rivers for irrigation etc
From IWT (ANNEXURE C-AGRICULTURAL USE BY INDIA FROM THE WESTERN RIVERS
(Article III(2)(c)),

Also unlimited consumption for domestic, industrial, gardens, etc is permitted.

The only restrictions are on commercial agriculture and Hydro Electric storage.

Neshant · Post by **Neshant** » 15 Feb 2010 09:53

wash the buffalos in there and let the water go down stream.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Feb 2010 10:52

arun wrote:^^^ In other words given that India’s water entitlement is in area terms (ie: 1.3 million acres) and not in water volume terms, there is nothing that stops India from growing the most water intensive crops the soil and climate conditions permit.

Would that be a correct surmise

Yes, that's correct. The IWT does not place any restriction on crop types just as it does not place any restriction on the number of run-of-river HEPs that India can build on the 'western' rivers.

Theo_Fidel · Post by **Theo_Fidel** » 15 Feb 2010 12:58

SSridhar wrote:Yes, that's correct. The IWT does not place any restriction on crop types just as it does not place any restriction on the number of run-of-river HEPs that India can build on the 'western' rivers.

How ever I believe there is a clause in there somewhere on a possible independent review for new irrigation areas in terms of water use. But in any case it is a superior claim.

As far as buffalo's, yes unlimited cattle stock watering permitted.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 15 Feb 2010 14:24

Look already its possible all the waster stuff from Indian soldiers in Siachen flows into the Nubra and then into the Indus and into all of Pakistan.

How about dumping chemicals which lead to say lower s**** count, E******* dysfunction or stuff that prevents wheat crops from growing.

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 15 Feb 2010 15:07

Aditya_V wrote:How about dumping chemicals which lead to say lower s**** count, E******* dysfunction or stuff that prevents wheat crops from growing.

Someone will help this Beggars to clean the water..

German water companies using UF to cure Pakistan's water woes
09 February 2010

German water manufacturers Siemens and KSB have each ordered 800 ultrafiltration (UF) modules from inge watertechnologies AG for the "Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA)" project funded by a group of development aid organizations in Pakistan. {CDWA was launched in Pakistan with USAID}
...
The inge modules will go to Pakistan's largest province, Punjab, where 1,600 plants are scheduled for construction. The company's modules operate at a capacity of either 2,000 or 4,000 L/h, and can enable a treatment plant to convert a total of approximately 50,000 m³/d of water into clean drinking water.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 15 Feb 2010 15:48

Knowing beggars they will still mess it up, they will damage the ones the Germans built them and demand aid to repair them.

Bheem · Post by **Bheem** » 15 Feb 2010 18:25

re SS, how does this acreage translate "roughly" in quantity of water?

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Feb 2010 19:03

Bheem wrote:. . . how does this acreage translate "roughly" in quantity of water?

I don't know much about agriculture. It must vary from crop to crop. What I know about paddy is that in the Indian subcontinent (as in the rest of Asia), we use the 'flooding' method to raise the paddy. In this water-intensive method, neraly half-a-metre (or 1½ feet of water) needs to be consumed which would mean that for a million acre, we need a million-and-a-half acre feet of water. 1 Acre-foot of water = 43,560 Cubic feet or 1233.482 Cubic Metres or 325,829 US Gallons of water.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 17 Feb 2010 03:12

River________1922-61________1985-95______2001-2002_______2010
Indus________93_____________62.7_________48_____________
Jehlum______23_____________26.6_________11.85___________
Chenab______26_____________27.5_________12.38___________
Ravi_________7_______________5___________1.47____________
Sutlej________14_____________3.6__________0.02____________
Kabul________26_____________23.4_________18.9____________

I found this while browsing some random websites and forums , is there any way to verify this data?

sunnyP · Post by **sunnyP** » 18 Feb 2010 02:58

Got to love the paki mentality.

“The international community is concerned about our security but why are they silent over our hegemonic neighbour’s water terrorism?” Palwasha questioned.

Revision: Urging revision of the Indus Water Treaty, she said the situation was totally different today in terms of climatic changes from what it was in the 1960s.

“This treaty should be modified to get more water for Pakistan. Climate change is posing a serious threat to Pakistan which is surrounded by major polluters such as India,” she added.

Sherpao said India was not only building dams on Pakistan’s western rivers, but was also assisting Afghanistan in building dams on rivers Kabul and Kunar that fed water to northern Pakistan.

MNAs lambast India for ‘water terrorism’

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Feb 2010 04:36

“This treaty should be modified to get more water for Pakistan."

And if the result is less water for Pakistan?

Theo_Fidel · Post by **Theo_Fidel** » 18 Feb 2010 04:51

Gerard wrote:
“This treaty should be modified to get more water for Pakistan."
And if the result is less water for Pakistan?

No treaty can survive a serious drought.

At some point the population upstream will demand more water. No way can you force a desperate population to let water flow down to when they need the water themselves.

It is Pakistan that will have to adjust to the reality of less water.

arun · Post by **arun** » 19 Feb 2010 07:28

Hysterics of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan notwithstanding, the Kishanganga project progresses.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) press release from a little over a week back stating that they have been awarded the contract to supply the entire electro-mechanical package which inter alia would include the turbines and generators:

10-Feb-2010

BHEL wins Rs.495 Crore order for 330 MW Hydro Electric Project in Jammu and Kashmir

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured a major contract for setting up a 330 MW (3x110 MW) Hydro Electric Project (HEP) in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Valued at Rs.27,610 Million, the turnkey order for the Kishanganga HEP of NHPC was bagged by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) along with BHEL under stiff International Competitive Bidding (ICB), as its offer was found techno-economically the best

Of the turnkey contract, BHEL has been awarded the order for the complete Electro-mechanical package. With this order valued at Rs.4,950 Million, the customer has once again reposed confidence in BHEL's proven technological excellence and capability in executing projects of this magnitude. ……………….

BHEL Press Release

arun · Post by **arun** » 19 Feb 2010 07:29

Protests in the Balawaristan part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir against the building of the Diamer Bhasha Dam by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan results in a gun battle leading to deaths.

Two killed, four injured in protest rally

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 19 Feb 2010 07:34

arun wrote:Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) press release from a little over a week back stating that they have been awarded the contract to supply the entire electro-mechanical package which inter alia would include the turbines and generators:

BHEL Press Release

From the above,

For NHPC, BHEL is also presently executing the electro-mechanical works for Nimoo Bazgo HEP (3x15 MW) and Chutak HEP (4x11 MW), both in the challenging terrain and climatic conditions of Jammu and Kashmir

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 19 Feb 2010 11:50

Pakistani Foreign Minister on the water issue

He said the water issue was a “very sensitive issue” for Pakistan and he intends to raise the matter with India very soon.

However, he stressed that it “would be not to blame India” for the water problem saying that Pakistan should utilise its share of water in a more efficient way.

Mr. Qureshi was the keynote speaker at the seventh worldwide security conference organised by the EastWest Institute in the Belgian capital Thursday.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 20 Feb 2010 13:54

US mediating between India & Pakistan to resolve the water 'dispute'

The American administration is talking to India to resolve the water issue with Pakistan, US Special Representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said in an interview to a private TV channel on Friday.

Holbrooke said Pakistan’s water crisis was the second most dangerous crisis after its economic turmoil.

arun · Post by **arun** » 20 Feb 2010 20:58

Saturday, February 20, 2010

India intends to divert river Neelam: Jamaat Shah …………….

Jamat Ali Shah informed the committee that Baglihar dam affects Pakistan's defence. “We have demanded India of the installment of Telemetry system on the dam.”

The Nation

As far as I recollect there is no obligation imposed on India by the Indus River Water Treaty to install a telemetry system at dams on the concerned rivers such as Baglihar. Neither for that matter do I recall any such obligation of installing a telemetry system imposed by the neutral expert in his arbitration judgment on Baglihar.

I do hope that India and more particularly the Congress party led UPA Government of Dr. Manmohan Singh does not in moment of unguarded charity foist on India a CBM that agrees to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s demand of installing a telemetry system at Baglihar dam.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 20 Feb 2010 21:06

Arun, the IWT states as follows:

These data shall be transmitted monthly by each Party to the other as soon as the data for a calendar month have been collected and tabulated, but not later than three months after the end of the months to which they relate : Provided that such of the data specified above as are considered by either Party to be necessary for operational purposes shall be supplied daily or at less frequent intervals, as may be requested,: Should one Party request the supply of any of these data by telegram, telephone, wireless, it shall reimburse the other Party for the cost of transmission.

There are two aspects. One is the frequency of the data and then the mode of supply of the data. No data needs to be supplied more frequently than 'daily'. Telemetry combines both these functions. Telemetry offers instantaneous and round the clock availability of data. Now, Baglihar data may not be required for Pakistan for operational purposes because there is Salal downstream of that. To Pakistan, it is releases from Salal that should matter for operational purposes. India should therefore just stick to the daily data supplied at the end of a calendar month. It may take India a month or two to further tabulate the data and send it across. It should take that time so as to provide an accurate set of data to the lower riparian state.

Pakistan should also be reminded of something else. Its demand for telemetry data shows its desire to use modern techniques to manage waters of the Indus rivers. In the same fashion, it should have conceded to the Indian demands for low-level sluice gates to control sedimentation in the Baglihar project. It created such a big fuss and created an impression that India would use such a facility to flood Pakistan, forgetting the first to bear the brunt of the flood fury would be Indian villages in the 100 or so kms before the waters reach Pakistan, and also the Salal project would be hit hard. Neither can India use Baglihar to cause famine in Pakistan by impounding water nor can it cause flash floods there by suddenly releasing water. Why did Pakistan object to the use of these sluice gates if it is now interested in modern management techniques ?

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 20 Feb 2010 22:22

Quote:
The American administration is talking to India to resolve the water issue with Pakistan, US Special Representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said in an interview to a private TV channel on Friday.

Holbrooke said Pakistan’s water crisis was the second most dangerous crisis after its economic turmoil.

Bakis have all the problems in the world--- economic turmoil, nuclear issue,water problems and the mother of all-terrorism. uncle sam involved in all of it. After it quits Af-Pak (if it does really) it still has some role to play in Indian subcontinent.

why is India allowing America to enter into water dispute-- IWT is a bilateral treaty between the 2 countries.
Slowly it is becoming like the man and the camel in a tent.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 20 Feb 2010 23:02

SSridhar wrote:Pakistani Foreign Minister on the water issue
He said the water issue was a “very sensitive issue” for Pakistan and he intends to raise the matter with India very soon.

However, he stressed that it “would be not to blame India” for the water problem saying that Pakistan should utilise its share of water in a more efficient way.

Mr. Qureshi was the keynote speaker at the seventh worldwide security conference organised by the EastWest Institute in the Belgian capital Thursday.

SSridhar-ji

The paki scum are playing the "good cop/bad cop" routine. On the one hand yelling in their Parliament that Indians are stealing water. But their FM wants to project a more reasonable face. I fully expect him to suggest that India should increase the flows on the eastern rivers (temporarily, say for 5 years) till Pakistan upgrades its water infrastructure and this will "send a positive signal" to Pakistan using which he can get concessions on terrorism. The Indian dhimmis will fall for this and set a precedent. 5 years later, when we cut back, Pakis will go to town yelling "India steals water".

Pakis have nothing concrete to offer us, just like they dont have anything concrete to offer the US. When faced with this predicament, they go to their usual refrain of "Oh but that will buy goodwill, and make it easier for us to behave better". US fell for it, and is doling out buckets of money. Let us not fall for it.

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 21 Feb 2010 02:56

I keep wondering what stops the Indian Ministry concerned with bilateral water treaties or the Foreign secretary to come out with a press-con/report which details what exactly the IWT entails for each country and relevant details which might include amount of water released to pakistan from the various rivers as well as how much we are consuming right now plus the amount we are letting go into pakistan due to our inability to store such water.

Just how difficult would it be to do that, given that we already have all the data. The constant

from the pakistani side regarding 'yindoo india is stealing our waters onlee. Water jihaaad!!'

Media will pick it up and quote from it as well as providing the opportunity for citizens to take a look at the actual details. Right now, not too many know the exact details are pretty muhc in the dark in this issue. Simple solution to ensure that GoI can have proper support from media (granted its a wkk media to boot) but facts aren't very easy to subvert.

Theo_Fidel · Post by **Theo_Fidel** » 21 Feb 2010 04:01

SSridhar wrote:Why did Pakistan object to the use of these sluice gates if it is now interested in modern management techniques ?

Does this even need to be asked.

To hurt India.

The treaty is a weapon in the hands of these clueless barbarians to harm Indian interests. Never mind that the same treaty actually protects their very existence. It is fair game to use it as a cudgel.

To this day there is great pleasure in Pakistani circles that there tactics caused the Salal dam to silt up and become worthless.

The thing they don't realize is that those tactic were what has caused their present strategic failure, where India ignores their every request on these projects, even if it might be reasonable.

I have no doubt a time will come where this treaty will have to be abrogated and redone.

shaardula · Post by **shaardula** » 21 Feb 2010 07:23

Talking of telemetry, in this article about raising the issues of kishen ganga at an international forum, there is a mention of what tsp is doing with its telemetry:

Chairman IRSA Aman Gul Khatak while briefing the committee on water accord 1991, stated that in 2003 due to water shortage a three pillar formula was presented.

However Sindh raised an objection to it and was still protesting.

He stated that billions of rupees were spent on telemetry system on barrages but it had failed to become operational. He said that the Prime Minister’s investigation team was looking into this matter.

Text of the Water Accord of 1991

shaardula · Post by **shaardula** » 21 Feb 2010 07:24

Meanwhile they are apparently building a thermal plant along the Chasma-Jhelum canal. Sindh is up in arms, with Sindhi women resorting to burning tires and all. PPP leader Taj Haider elaborates on pakjab's thievery:

Taj Haider said that the construction of a power plant on Chashma canal is an unnecessary hindrance and should be removed immediately. He said there are 360 other canals in Punjab where such a power plant could be constructed.

He said that 8,000 cusecs of water that should be received by Sindh is stolen from Kotri barrage every year, adding that this transfer should be made through Guddu barrage instead.

He said that the lack of fresh water is harming agricultural land in Thatta and Badin districts.

MeanwhilePunjab Law minister, Rana Sanaullah, insists:

He said that all allegations that Punjab is stealing Sindh's water share are baseless.

Here is a fairly detailed nuts and bolts type of article about Sindh's irrigation minister reactions. Going by what is written here, fairly impressive guy this Syed Murad Ali Shah

The minister, however, advised members not to raise this sensitive issue on the floor of the house unless they possessed full information on the subject and had already consulted the minister concerned.

He also warned certain elements within Sindh against fomenting hatred between various political forces and ethnic communities, and vowed to go ahead with the policy of reconciliation to ensure peace and harmony in the province.

A resolution on the subject, if moved by any member, would be welcomed, he added.

Tracking the history of water accords on the Indus from 1945, he said the first water-sharing accord was signed in 1945 and remained in force till 1991, when another water agreement was inked. He said the Indus Basin Treaty was signed in 1960 under which water from three Pakistani rivers was sold to India ignoring strong protests by Sindh.

He said that the Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal (CJLC) was built in 1971 and Sindh pleaded its case before the Fazl-ur-Rehman Commission. An agreement was signed in 1972 by the then Sindh chief minister and the Punjab governor on the release of water into the canal. It was agreed that the consent of the Sindh chief minister would be mandatory for any release of water, but the condition was violated during the dictatorial rule of General Ziaul Haq soon after the PPP government was toppled.

Syed Murad Ali Shah stated that under the 1991 water accord, there was no mention of water allocation for the CJLC since there had been sufficient water flow in the Indus system until 1999. He said that on the 12th of this month, the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) fraudulently released water into the canal for irrigating southern Punjab lands. The release was made possible when the Balochistan representative resorted to favouring Punjab on the question of the latter’s requirement.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 21 Feb 2010 07:33

shaardula wrote:Talking of telemetry, in this article about raising the issues of kishen ganga at an international forum, there is a mention of what tsp is doing with its telemetry:
He stated that billions of rupees were spent on telemetry system on barrages but it had failed to become operational. He said that the Prime Minister’s investigation team was looking into this matter.
Text of the Water Accord of 1991

Shaardula, yes, they installed the Siemens-made telemetry system. But, soon the telemetry system was tampered with by the Punjabis to enable them to steal water. The Sind objected to the telemetry data. The GoP, dominated by the Punjbis, blamed Siemens for that and threatened to sue them. The Siemens engineers returned to prove the tampering and also demonstrate once again how their systems were accurate if left to work by themselves !!

As for the water accord of 1991 among the Pakistani provinces, it was never implemented to the satisfaction of everyone except the Punjab.

arun · Post by **arun** » 21 Feb 2010 08:11

Sridhar,

Thanks for your solid comment dismissing the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s call for receiving telemetry from Baglihar as nothing more than the usual misplaced sense of entitlement that Pakistan displays (Clicky).

Now let me continue to hope that India and more particularly the Congress party led UPA Government of Dr. Manmohan Singh does not in moment of unguarded charity foist on India a CBM that agrees to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s demand of installing a telemetry system at Baglihar dam.

arun · Post by **arun** » 21 Feb 2010 08:16

arun wrote:Protests in the Balawaristan part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir against the building of the Diamer Bhasha Dam by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan results in a gun battle leading to deaths.

Two killed, four injured in protest rally

Dawn editorial on subject of the gunning down of those protesting the building of the Diamer Bhasha Dam by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in the Balawaristan part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

Dawn in its editorial has opined that "THERE is no doubt that disproportionate force was used by security personnel in Chilas on Thursday when they killed two protesters and injured at least four.":

Bloodshed in Chilas

shaardula · Post by **shaardula** » 21 Feb 2010 08:22

^^^ ameen. thanks sridhar for your fact based comments.

arun · Post by **arun** » 21 Feb 2010 08:27

Opposition mounts in Sindh to the Punjabi theft of water.

Rasool Bux Palijo chief of Awami Tehreek :

“Now time has come to ask one question to Punjab that do they want power plants and water or Pakistan”

Read it all:

Nationalists united against link canal project

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 21 Feb 2010 18:20

Indo-Pak water talks in March

Pakistani and Indian water authorities are actively considering follow-up sessions sometime next month as the two nuclear neighbors are opening foreign secretaries level talks, The News has learnt.

The plan to move the World Bank (WB) on Indian Kishanganga project stands temporarily shelved till assessing the outcome of the secretary level talks, official sources at the Ministry of Water and Power told to The News here on Saturday.

Islamabad functionaries have been issuing statements during the last 5-6 months that they would move the WB, a guarantor of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) 1960, but nothing was done in practical terms.

“We have invited the Indian team in March in Islamabad to review the overall water issues, controversies and dispatching of an inspection team to Indus Rivers Indian sites,” the sources said. These talks would be held at the platform of the Permanent Indus Commission (PIC), which is the only functional body between the two states since the IWT finalisation and it meets every year without interruption.