In the Char Asiab locale of Kabul

With the administration's braggadocios on the 100-day execution taking all features, we are continually ignoring our most vital security challenge — water. Environmental change has struck us hard. Low precipitation levels, dry spells and heatwaves have bothered our water difficulties. Be that as it may, we are missing one urgent improvement here — a feature no place to be found in Pakistan's predominant press. In an uncommon move, India is utilizing water as a weapon to additionally worsen relations with Pakistan — this time in Afghanistan.

In the Char Asiab locale of Kabul, New Delhi is subsidizing an aspiring dam that could diminish water stream to Pakistan's downstream. The proposed Shahtoor dam will hold 146 million cubic meters of consumable water for two million Kabul occupants and flood 4,000 hectares of land. Mention that the Kabul River purges into the Indus River close Attock, Punjab. Subsequently, there will be a 17%-20% decrease in Pakistan's water stream. Utilizing water as a weapon could without much of a stretch trigger war in the delicate South Asian locale.

In the midst of President Trump's questionable South Asian Policy and India's real interests in Afghanistan's framework as of late, it is clear that India needs to utilize the Afghan soil to threaten Pakistan. As the most water-focused on country in South Asia, we are coming to towards hazardously low water levels, even underneath the pivotal limit of 1,000 cubic meters — a standard given by the World Bank. Water deficiencies are frequently underlying drivers of war. Absence of water prompts sustenance deficiencies, cost increments and starvation — all bring forth financial and politic unrest. War-torn nations like Syria and Yemen are ongoing precedents where outright water deficiencies, alongside different components, prompted add up to war.

Not to overlook, India's as of late initiated Kishanganga dam additionally disregarded the authentic Indus Water Treaty of 1960. The dubious dam has been built in the questioned domain of Kashmir. Adding more fuel to the contention, New Dehli now has plans to incapacitate our officially deadened water status through the Afghan soil.

Here, a broad discussion in parliament will serve to be to a great degree favorable. A water gathering must be set up to research the draining water levels and start a vigorous vital arrangement to handle this disaster. Pakistan ought to likewise strengthen its water promotion and tact. The UN has to think about India's vindictive endeavors at crumbling our water levels that may prompt a war in the locale. As a low riparian express, the IWT enables us to challenge these advancements.