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India-Pakistan
India threatens to cut water to Pakistan
2016-11-26
[ALMASDARNEWS] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he is "committed" to cutting the water supply to Pakistain because of hostilities in the volatile Kashmire region.

Modi said at the opening of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the city of Bathinda on Friday that the government was "committed" to getting "farmers their rights."

"Now every drop of this water will be stopped and I will give that to ... Indian farmers. I am committed to this," Modi stated.

He said he also already setup a task force to oversee that "each drop of water" does not reach Pakistain.

Under an internationally mediated agreement between India and Pakistain signed in 1960, named the Indus Waters Treaty, the water of six rivers, namely Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum, are to be shared between the two countries.

On November 24, Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
, Pakistain’s adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs, said in response to Modi’s decision that the revocation of the Indus Waters Treaty by India where water of the Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum rivers, are to be shared between the two countries, "can be taken as an act of war."

Islamabad will "react befittingly" if Modi attempts to violate the Indus Waters Treaty, Aziz warned.

Posted by:Fred

#4  Dig in Skid air-fuel burst on the way
Posted by: Shipman   2016-11-26 17:53  

#3  Interesting, two of the four elements, fire and water used as instruments of war. Air and earth remain. I wonder if that counts as nuclear winter?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-11-26 15:52  

#2  From Natl Geographic, October 2011:
Nearly 30 percent of the world's cotton supply comes from India and Pakistan, much of that from the Indus River Valley. On average, about 737 billion gallons are withdrawn from the Indus River annually to grow cotton—enough to provide Delhi residents with household water for more than two years. "Pakistan's entire economy is driven by the textile industry," said Michael Kugelman, a South Asia expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "The problem with Pakistan's economy is that most of the major industries use a ton of water—textiles, sugar, wheat—and there's a tremendous amount of water that's not only used, but wasted."
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897   2016-11-26 09:56  

#1  Paper gets cut paper covers rock water rusts cutting instrument makes paper soggy and rounds rocks play the damn game the right way what idiots!
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach5685   2016-11-26 06:09  

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