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Pakistan’s Water Crisis: Search for Root Causes

By amicus • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The partition of the South Asian Subcontinent on 14 August 1947 into the dominions of India and Pakistan gave birth to a host of problems, including that of the sharing of waters of the mighty Indus River System. The issue was of concern to Pakistan because the head works of the rivers that irrigated Pakistan’s [...]



Indus Water Treaty-1960 in Doldrums

By Guest Blogger • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics

WHILE the “power crisis” has caused the economic slowdown, India withheld millions of cubic feet of water upstream on the river Chenab by storing it in dozen of newly constructed dams so as to generate 8,696 MW hydro-electricity for the growing needs of its burgeoning population. This was a flagrant breach of Indus Water Basin [...]



The water war between India/Pakistan

By Johann • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Now Pakistan is stating that the water issue is more important than even Kashmir. We have a treaty called Indus water treaty which has held good with 3 RIVERS given exclusively to Pakistan and 2 to India with no rights of usage except for run of the flow check dams for electricity generation.The water of [...]



The Indus Water Dispute

By ahsan • Oct 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As fresh water becomes scarce globally, the countries have ventured into new projects to ensure a sustained supply of water for their safe human consumption. Today, more than a billion people in the world do not have access to fresh water. As per the United Nations estimates, half of the countries world wide would face [...]



Answer to Bharat Varma’s Fulmination

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Bharat Varam who lives either in fool’s Paradise or in New Delhi (or perhaps they are the same thing) has developed a really cheap penchant for coming up with ludicrous suggestions to his government and military. He is pushing his country so hard towards total disintegration which is amazing given the India is already sliding [...]



The Indian Hullabaloo

By Dr RazaHaider • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Though I don’t see a reasonable justification of this absurd issue of Mumbai fallacy, a factual security failure, but misbehaviors have found the dilemma to again, criticize and malign neighbors with all time intended theme thus expressing their feminine quality to make hue and cry.