Parched Pak wrote four letters to India to reinstate Indus Waters Treaty
Pakistan, battling a severe water crisis, urged India to reconsider its decision to pause the Indus Waters Treaty through four letters, sources said, nearly two months after 26 people were killed in the Pahalgam terror attack.
Rabi crops in Pakistan may be affected due to the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty.
(India's Jal Shakti Ministry has sent all the four letters from Pakistan to the Ministry of External Affairs)
Post-Pahalgam terror attack on innocent Hindu tourists, as part of a diplomatic offensive, India had paused the World Bank-brokered water-sharing deal between the two neighbours.
Pakistan - now parched - wrote to India as many as four letters asking it to reinstate the Indus Waters Treaty.
In the missives written by Pakistan's Ministry of Water Resources, Secretary Syed Ali Murtaza urged New Delhi to 'reconsider' its decision to stop the Indus Waters Treaty.
Later, the ministry wrote three more letters to New Delhi and appealed to reinstate the agreement.
The four letters from Pakistan are with the Ministry of External Affairs. Pakistan had also requested the World Bank, which brokered the deal, to intervene in the matter, sources said. However, the World Bank refused to step into the issue.
The agreement allocates the eastern rivers - Sutlej, Beas and Ravi - to India and the western rivers - Indus, Jhelum and Chenab - to Pakistan.
During his address to the nation on May 12th, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear to Pakistan that water and blood cannot flow together while reacting to the pause of the Indus Waters Treaty.
India is planning to construct a 130-km-long canal that will connect the Beas river to the Ganga canal. There is also a proposal to build a canal to connect Indus with the Yamuna, sources said.
A 12-km-long tunnel is planned to be built as part of the 200-km-long project. States like Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab, and Delhi are expected to benefit from the project.
A Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the entire project regarding Indus water will be made soon.
The treaty allocates the eastern rivers - Sutlej, Beas and Ravi - to India and the western rivers - Indus, Jhelum and Chenab - to Pakistan.
The government has announced plans on three fronts - short-term, mid-term, and long-term - to prevent the Indus river's water from reaching Pakistan. Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil said arrangements will be made to ensure not a single drop of water is wasted.
"The Indus Waters Treaty was concluded in the spirit of goodwill and friendship as specified in the preamble of the treaty. However, Pakistan has held these principles in abeyance by its promotion of cross-border terrorism for decades," Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said last month.
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