AS Pakistan rolls its territory of the most extensive air strikes during the official peaceful peace of the two countries and in the middle of ongoing gun -based shifts on the entire border of Kashmir, observers worrying about additional escalation between the nuclear weapons between neighbors.
But in addition to balls and rockets, there is another weapon that India has threatened to use in the conflict that Pakistan has said that it would definitely be “war: water.
Among India's Early Wednesday strike targets was Pakistan's A nelia-ylm hydroporal energy projectAccording to Pakistan's armed forces. The strikes came only a few hours after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India would prevent water from flowing.
“Now Indian water flows in favor of India, it is retained in favor of India and is used for Indian progress,” Modi said Tuesday.
India suspended its agreement on a 65-year-old contract that led water-sharing between the two countries at the end of last month.Continuous cross -border terrorism by Pakistan”— April 22 attack Indian tourists controlled by Indian Kashmir in Pakistan's military group, which Pakistan has said that it has not been involved.
Pakistan in response warned This attempt to stop the upstream water flow from India, “is considered a military act and responds with complete force in the entire spectrum of national power.”
Its Indus Waters Agreement The World Bank mediated in 1960 after India and Pakistan's independence of the British government and partition in 1947. The contract shared access to the six rivers of the Indus pool, giving Indian control over treatment, Beas and Sutleji eastern rivers; Finding that Pakistan retains access to the rivers of Indus, Jhelum and Chenab in the west. The contract became the basis for peace in the area, taking into account the dependence of both countries on the water system of the Indus River basin on the humidification of their agricultural lands.
Indian comments have stated that the contract was very ”generous“Pakistan, which was downstream, was essentially given access 80% of the system of waterTo. The contract states that India cannot build an infrastructure that restricts or directs the flow of water from the Western rivers-otherwise as limited use of agriculture and for the generation of hydroelectric power. Until a unilateral withdrawal in April, India has generally respected the contract through the Pakistan wars.
The suspension of the contract is an important risk to the Pakistan economy, which is agriculture almost a quarterTo. “Most Pakistani irrigation, hydropower production, electricity generation and general development are strongly dependent on the Indus pool,” said a regional water resource expert to Himanshu Thakkar Keralas, a newspaper MathrubhumiTo.
But it is not unclear to what extent India can block the water flow to Pakistan. Experts have argued that India does not currently have an dam infrastructure to fully control the flow of water from the rivers. However, India lowered the slip gates on May 4 at the Baghari dam, effectively reducing Pakistan downs through the Chenabi River up to 90%, respectively 90%respectively Hindustan's timesTo. And similar steps are said to be a project for the Kishanganga project of the Jhelum River.
In Pakistan's newspaper, Hassan wrote F. Khan, a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at the University of Tufts University Dawn Although India cannot simply stop the flow of water in Pakistan, it would be more possible to renew this contract during the dry period of December: “During the dry season, more urgent concerns happen when the pool currents are lower, storage is more important and timing becomes more critical.”
Another way Indian can use water as a weapon is to keep flood data. Former Indian Indus Aquarier Pradeep Kumar Saxena spoke Trust of Indian Press The news agency in April that the state may stop sharing data with Pakistan after suspension of the pact, which could damage the monsoon season.
