India diverting Water and Power from occupied Kashmir to Rajasthan to dry Pakistan

India creating millions of acre feet of live storage on six rivers in violation of IWT to deprive Pakistan of water for Rabi and early Kharif crops. Pakistan will be deprived of about 10 maf of dead storage and about 15 maf of live storage by the year 2016 on completion of the network of dams on six rivers.

Water is life-saving natural resource but is used by India as Weapon of mass Destruction because of wrong partition of India

Unjust partition of India by the British created Kashmir dispute and water issues that may lead to nuclear conflict in South Asia

India is building dozens of dams on each river specially on Chinab and Jehlum,  diverting millions of acre feet of dead storage and live storage from occupied Kashmir to Rajasthan besides hydropower. This is violation of IWT. The Indus Waters Treaty provides generation of hydropower on run-of-the-river with no or nominal live storage. It does not allow to build 827 feet high Barsar Dam to create huge dead and live storage. India is building substantial cumulative dead and live storage to run Pakistan dry and deprive it of Rabi and Kharif crops.

Over and above, India is drawing seepage water of rivers as groundwater through tube wells that is actually the perennial river flow. This reduces perennial flow to Pakistan. Chinab River flow has dropped from 21 maf to 14 maf after the construction of Baglihar Dam. It shows 7 maf of water disappeared from Chinab so far.

Indian intension is not to allow a drop of water from Chinab and Jehlum rivers go down to Pakistan during the keen demand period for Rabi and early Kharif crops. India is bent upon turning the land of five sparkling, live rivers into the land of dead rivers.

India is building hundreds of very high (827 feet, 475 feet …) to medium and small sized dams on the Indus, the Jehlum, Chinab, Ravi, Sutlege and Bias rivers including their tributaries in occupied Kashmir. This will stop perennial flow of water to Pakistan for a period of about 6 to 7 winter months. India plans to convert the world’s largest contiguous canal irrigation system into desert. This is blatant violation of the IWT and the international laws on water rights of lower riparian.

India plans to build a network of dams on six rivers inter-connecting their perennial flows with in the catchment area of occupied Kashmir using the full slope potential of each river. The network plan will be completed by 2016. By then, it will completely cut-off Rabi and early Kharif water supplies to Pakistan that it inherits since 2600 BC. The perennial storage water would be diverted to Rajisthan. Partition of India cannot snatch water rights. The boundary line has to be re-drawn, if nuclear war is to be avoided.

Tarbela and Mangla have silted up by 6.6 maf. This lost replacement storage requires to be replenished under the Treaty as Pakistan gave perennial flow of the three Eastern rivers to India and got in exchange perennial stored water. This stored water needs to be replenished perennially after its silting up.

India misuses the natural water resource as weapon of mass destruction, to covert Pakistan into desert, and to subject 200 million of population to sever famine and hunger.

The sub-continent is wrongly divided. It enabled India to control water supply to Pakistan. India can  use water as a weapon of destruction.

All the canal head works went to India along with the occupied Kashmir the source of origin of the six rivers and the Muslim majority area. This was great injustice. It has sown the seed of nuclear war. Nuclear war is therefore hanging on the sub-continent and on its 1.4 million peoples as the sword of Damocles.

The need arises to settle the Kashmir dispute with the active diplomatic support of USA, UN and the world nations keeping in view the UN 60 years, old resolution on Kashmir. The earth cannot face dangerous radioactive environment, as a result of nuclear war. This should be avoided as it would destroy the earth’s environment. There will be no gainer.  

Therefore, water issues and Kashmir dispute do not only concern Pakistan and India but the whole world. India should settle the Kashmir dispute and water issues by meaningful talks at the earliest. Occupied Kashmir is the Muslim majority area. The origin of all the six rivers lie in occupied Kashmir. More over, the head works of the three Eastern Rivers lie in India.

 For amicable settlement, occupied Kashmir be exchanged for the State of Hyderabad Daccan, the State of Junagarh and Manawadar- Hindu majority areas but acceded to Pakistan.

A nuclear war in the sub-continent should send shivers around the world as it would damage the whole environment on earth. After all, it is not only a matter about the destruction of the sub-continent but of the whole earth itself.

Nuclear radiation would cause radioactive rains, land under crop would become radioactive, sources of drinking water would become radioactive, and weather would change drastically. It would cause rapid depletion of ozone layer. Radioactivity would bring genetic changes in all living creatures including human beings for generations. It would cause genetic abnormalities. Life in all form would extinguish. There would be no photosynthesis.

India did not settle Kashmir dispute according to UN resolution for the past 60 years. India is boldly violating IWT. India is not releasing relevant data on dams as required by the IWT. India uses water as the weapon of mass destruction. India that wears the garb of the largest democracy killed hundred thousands of Kashmiri. India is now planning to kill 180 million Pakistani by stopping perennial water for Rabi and early Kharif crop causing famine and hunger. India should not force Pakistan to become nuclear suicide bomber.