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The Mission Statement of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, Government of Pakistan reads;
Make Pakistan sufficient in water resources for supplying good quality drinking water for human, livestock, wildlife, and for irrigation of agriculture crops as well as for industrial use.
Our mission statements will remain mission statement. We haven’t seen anything being practically done from 1947 till this day. The same is the case of Water. Water has been a bone contention between the provinces for almost past sixty years. The news of water shortage in some provinces and 32,000 cusecs extra water to cover the shortages gave birth to a war of words between the provinces and even the parties believing in federalism couldn’t remain neutral and loaded their cannon towards each others. The Pakistan People’s Party led the Sindh while the MP from PML Q & N started representing Punjab.
I don’t think that the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) decision to give complete share of water to provinces is a remedy to this problem. The bone of contention will remain a bone until and unless we resolve the real issue.
The cartoonist of daily Ummat has beautifully pointed towards this real problem which to our “Federal” parties is not a problem at all. India is very speedily constructing new dams and the day is not for when we will have no reason to fight; no water, no water politics and no quarrel. Our “patriotic” parties who believe in federalism should pay heed to the real problem if these really want to throw out the bones of contention from between the federating units.
Filed under: Human rights, India, Irrigation, Judiciary, Morality, PML Q, PNL N, PPP, PPPP, Pakistan, Water, politics
It is Ok but the water in witch Sindh & Panjab fighting is realy Pakhtonkhwa,s water.U know that Fedrel gove purchasing elictricity from Panjab And Sindh Rs 6:00 and only 10 pisa from Pakhtoonkwa. we should to think about that.
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@ It is not the problem between provinces. we are fighting over water share but our government has no guts to fight the indian or demand our water share.