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| India-Pakistan | |
| Getting ready for a ‘water war'? | |
| 2010-02-26 | |
By Khaled Ahmed
Pakistan may be getting ready to go to war with India, not over Kashmir, which it finds futile, but over the river water India is supposed to insist on stealing from it despite the Indus Water Treaty of 1960. Pakistan's army chief has mentioned 'water' in his last challenging statement, followed by the Prime Minister, and there is a one-sided media war going on as the Indian side, still angry over the Mumbai attack, is poised to jump in, all guns blazing. One chief editor in Pakistan says Pakistan should nuke the Indian dams stealing Pakistani water -- with him as human payload tied to a nuclear missile! | |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #4 Personally, I wish the Indians would just scorch the place and finish the Pakis once and for all. Then they would have someplace to ship their domestic Muslims. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2010-02-26 13:17 |
| #3 So it's true! (The belief in) Global Warming will lead to wars! Give us an example of something that doesn't arouse Muslim rage. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-02-26 13:16 |
| #2 The Treaty did not take into account the ecological change that would occur half a century later, depriving the subcontinent of rains and run-off from its mountain glaciers. So it's true! (The belief in) Global Warming will lead to wars! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2010-02-26 06:02 |
| #1 Good analysis, especially the last 3 paragraphs. As for the impact of 'climate change', the Indian monsooon is driven by the summer heat in central Asia. The hotter it gets, the stronger the monsoon, in broad terms. Were the world's climate to warm, Himalayan precipitation would increase. Clearly good for both India and Pakistan, but you won't be hearing that from the IPCC. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-02-26 02:01 |