mar 25th, 2010
standard mohammedan argument:
what's ours is ours; what's yours is negotiable.
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From:
Sanjeev
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Indus Water Treaty: Politicisation will only harm Pakistan:
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan. http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers38/paper3721.html
( To be read with the earlier paper No. 3676 of 19th February 2010)
In the run up to the Foreign Secretary level talks in end February, many Pakistan news analysts went ballistic over the river waters issue relating the Indus Water Treaty of 1960.
The Pakistani Times of 27th February alleged that India is stealing twenty percent of water from Pakistani Rivers and that Chenab is the worst victim. It also said that India is building a hydro electric project on River Kabul using Pakistani waters!
Sajjad Shaukat of Pakistani Observer of 27th February accused India of practising "water terrorism" against Pakistan.
Amidst all this hysteria, the News International of Pakistan did point out that the political and military leadership as well as the conservative sections of the media raised enough hue and cry in trying to project water as the real bone of contention. It continued, that if indeed this trend continues, it will be no surprise that in due course Pakistan may push Kashmir into the background and project India's water terrorism to counter India's charges against Pakistan for supporting terrorism across the border as the primary issue.
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( The writer is a former hydrologist and holds a PhD on International River Systems)
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