Twirp : Terrorist Wahabi Islamic Republic Pakistan

[Naresh]

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<b>NO one less than Pakistan's Commissioner on the Indus Waters Commission has revealed that India plans to put up no less than 40 projects, big and small, on the River Chenab, for the generation of 2100 MW of electricity. With no less than three dam sites in Doda district, India is exploiting the provision in the Indus Waters Treaty for the building of power projects, so long as they are just run-of-the-river. However, these projects will be converted into diversions of water, and Pakistan will be left to invoke the largely toothless mechanism provided in the Treaty, just as it has done over the Baghliar project, though it has not invoked it over Wullar, both of which are barrage projects.</b>

Jamaat Ali Shah, who is an irrigation expert in his own right, made these remarks to the Nazria-e-Pakistan Foundation, which he addressed. As he made painfully clear, Indian claims were strengthened by the Pakistani failure to build major projects on the rivers it had got under the Treaty. Though apparently Mr Shah did not mention it, the most obvious project not to be built, though all the feasibility reports favour it, is the Kalabagh Dam on the Indus.

Mr Shah told of the Indian plan to earn Rs 10.05 billion for the Indian government, while Held Kashmir would get a royalty of only 12.51 percent. Obviously, the Indian government has no compunctions about exploiting Kashmir's natural resources even though there is a UN dispute on the territory. This should also serve as an object lesson to the people of Pakistan to buckle down and get ready to use those resources they have been left with. The refusal to execute projects even though they are ready does not favour any province, though the unity of the federation is commonly made the excuse. It is India that is favoured by this approach, not any Pakistani province. India has always been exploitative in its approach to almost any problem, and this is yet another example. It is time that Pakistan stopped India from going any further on this issue. <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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