No threat to govt if PM Imran can talk less, says Khawaja Asif

With the administration's braggadocios on the 100-day execution taking all features, we are continually ignoring our most crucial security challenge — water. Environmental change has struck us hard. Low precipitation levels, dry seasons and heatwaves have irritated our water difficulties. In any case, we are missing one pivotal improvement here — a feature no place to be found in Pakistan's predominant press. In an extraordinary move, India is utilizing water as a weapon to additionally compound relations with Pakistan — this time in Afghanistan.

In the Char Asiab area of Kabul, New Delhi is financing an eager dam that could decrease 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 inundate 4,000 hectares of land. Mention that the Kabul River purges into the Indus River close Attock, Punjab. Accordingly, 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 district.

In the midst of President Trump's dubious South Asian Policy and India's significant 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 perilously low water levels, even beneath the pivotal edge of 1,000 cubic meters — a standard given by the World Bank. Water deficiencies are regularly main drivers of war. Absence of water prompts sustenance deficiencies, cost increments and starvation — all sire financial and politic strife. War-torn nations like Syria and Yemen are ongoing precedents where outright water deficiencies, alongside different variables, prompted add up to war.

Not to overlook, India's as of late introduced Kishanganga dam likewise abused the authentic Indus Water Treaty of 1960. The dubious dam has been developed in the questioned region of Kashmir. Adding more fuel to the contention, New Dehli now has plans to incapacitate our effectively deadened water status through the Afghan soil.

Here, a broad discussion in parliament will serve to be to a great degree favorable. A water council must be set up to explore the exhausting water levels and start a hearty key intend to handle this fiasco. Pakistan ought to likewise strengthen its water backing and strategy. The UN has to think about India's vindictive endeavors at falling apart our water levels that may prompt a war in the district. As a low riparian express, the IWT enables us to challenge these improvements.