On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the importance of suspension of Indus Waters contract as a result of the terrorist attack of Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir. PM said, “Pehle bharat to haq ka paani bhi bahar ja raha tha, ab bharat ka paani, bharat to haq me bahega, bharat to haq mai bega aur bharat and hi kaam aayega.” (Previously, even the water that rightly belonged to India has leaked out of the ground. Indian water for India will now flow for India and will be used for Indian own needs).
India suspended the Indus Waters agreement, a ten -year agreement with Pakistan, regulating shared use of key rivers. India suspended a pact with water sharing, which ensures that it adds 80 percent of Pakistani farms after identifying two of the three attackers in an attack that killed 26 people in Kashmir as Pakistani.
PM Modi spoke at the news event ABP.
“For decades, our rivers’ water has been the subject of tension and conflict, but our government, in cooperation with state governments, has launched a massive campaign to connect the river. The Ken-Betwa Link project and the Parvati-Kalisindh Chambal project will benefit from millions of farmers,” PM Modi added.
All gates of the Baglihar dam, a key hydro power plant on the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir Ramban District, remain closed, although the limited volume of water still flows.
The Baglihar dam, the key project of the Chanab River, was in the center of the past disputes between India and Pakistan within the Indus Waters contract.
Pakistan argued that India almost completely stopped the flow of water across the border across the Chenab River as concerns about the collision between the two neighbors on the mountain after a terrorist attack in Pahalgam.
Since Sunday morning, the water flow was limited to almost 90 percent of the usual volume that passed to Pakistan, according to Muhammad Khalid Idrees Rana, a spokesman for the Pakistani Office for Indus river systems. The nation expected that water reserves for farms would be short in the next two months before this shortening, he said.
“It’s unprecedented,” Rana said, adding that India usually holds some water a day to make electricity, but releases it every few hours.
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