- Water discharge The worst example of India’s water aggression: Minister.
- Ahsan Iqbal says India stores water and suddenly releases it.
- Damping India’s lack of timely sharing information with Pakistan.
Pakistan has attacked India for essentially “arms water”, where planning and development minister Ahsan Iqbal said that New Delhi suddenly and intentionally printed the torrents from its dams.
“India has begun to use water as a weapon,” Iqbal said while talking about Pakinomist News‘Program “Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath” as he reflected on the flood of the large scale of Punjab, which has left great earth sharks flooded due to the flood’s flooding Ravi, Sutlej and Chenab.
With at least seven people losing their lives in Punjab’s Gujranwala department due to flooding, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has advised Sindh’s provincial disaster control authority (PDMA) SINDH to initiate the evacuation of vulnerable communities resident along Katcha (River) areas and low-lying Belts in Indus River.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday issued a number of directives to provincial and district authorities to accelerate the relief and rehabilitation efforts in flood-affected areas.
The minister has ordered the field of Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners, along with immediate documentation of injuries caused by homes and crops.
She directed district administrations to limit people from entering flooding zones.
Separately, speaking in a video statement, while monitoring rescue and relief efforts in Kartarpur, Iqbal called the water discharge as a “worst example” of water aggression of India.
“India stores water on rivers and suddenly releases it,” the minister noted, adding that New Delhi’s water aggression posed a threat to life and properties.
“Some questions are out of national disputes and political differences. Countries should put aside all differences and secure cooperation on the issue of water resources.
India has also made natural disasters a source of politics. India did not share information with Pakistan in a timely way, “he noted, adding that New Delhi’s lack of doing it was” extremely regrettable and inhuman. “
The Minister’s comments refer to the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), which binds both countries to share information with each other about water discharge. However, the treaty has been introduced by an Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in the wake of the Pahagam attack in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) in April.
However, in June, the permanent arbitration court issued a unanimous judgment that binds in both countries, a supplementary award in the IWT case and declared that New Delhi could not unilaterally suspend the agreement.
The Arbitration Court’s decision confirmed that India’s unilateral acts could not undermine the jurisdiction of neither the arbitration court nor the neutral expert in the procedure under IWT.
Although India reached Pakistan to warn of a potential flood situation – due to water discharge – the move was carried out via diplomatic channels and not through the Bilateral Commission as required by IWT.
