29/05/2025
China is also a player
The Institute of International Relations and Media Research organized a seminar on the most important issue of water in the subcontinent after the recent Pak-India war, which can ignite a lot. Federal Minister for Water Resources Moin Wattoo, former Provincial Minister for Irrigation Mohsin Leghari, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami, Sohail Warraich, Javed Farooqi, Zulfiqar Mahto, Yasir Habib, water expert Chaudhry Shafiq, former Indus Water Commissioners Shiraz Jamil, Asif Baig and other experts participated. All the participants were in complete agreement on these issues that if any mischief is attempted by India on water, then in such a situation, instead of any emotional reaction, every forum should be used that can prove useful for resolving the issue and there is no second opinion in this that even the slightest negligence on water issues will cause extraordinary trouble for Pakistan, so Pakistan will go to the extreme to counter any water aggression. When India announced the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty, I was already engaged in a research work regarding Pakistan’s water resources because there are differences of opinion on water issues even among the provinces of Pakistan and it is also certain that the people of each province love their beloved country more than the other province, so their reservations should be understood to know what the real problem is. It is also an irrefutable fact that the water resources of Pakistan and India are not limited to these two countries only. China and Bangladesh play an important role in this. Long story short, when India announced the “suspension” of the Indus Water Treaty, at that time I was discussing China’s water resources and the relationship between these resources and India with a Chinese friend living in Beijing.
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