Assef fears war with India over water

[waraich66]

Assef fears war with India over water




Sunday, January 03, 2010

By our correspondent

LAHORE: Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Sardar Assef Ahmad Ali has said India will have to stop stealing Pakistan’s water as the latter will not hesitate to wage war with New Delhi if it does not stop doing so.

He was speaking at a seminar on the “Improvement on Energy Sector”, organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pakistan (IEEEP), at a local hotel on Saturday.

Talking to media persons, Sardar Assef said 5,000 MW of power would be produced by the Rental Power Plants (RPPs) in the next two years. He said the private sector was responsible for the delay in the RPPs because it was the sector’s responsibility to induct the RPPs into the national grid in time and the government had nothing to do with the delay. He said Pakistan had the best energy resources as compared to other countries in the region but “we could not utilise them”. He said in order to fulfil our energy needs, it was necessary to tap the Thar coal reserves, adding that work on the Thar coal resources would start the moment the Sindh Assembly passed a resolution in this regard.

About the import of gas from Iran, he said if Pakistan imported gas from Qatar, it would be cheaper than the gas from Iran. Moreover, he said the Iranians were strict about the terms and conditions of the agreement and they would never compromise on the price issue.

He said dictators had damaged the socio-economic fabric of the country and added that if the previous government had taken action in time, the Baghliar Dam would have never been constructed by India.

Chief of Pakistan Muttahida Kisan Mahaz Ayub Mayo said due to the negligence of Pakistani leaders, India had damaged the irrigation system of Pakistan by stealing water in violation of the treaties. He said a huge crisis was impending in the water and agricultural sectors of Pakistan, adding people were ready to live without electricity for some time but they would not allow the RPPs to be a part of the power sector.

 

[pakdefender]

You just have to see the dry river bed of chenab to understand what this is all about. We need to bomb the dams that india is making on these rivers.

This is not acceptable and we are ready to go to war over this issue.

 

[waraich66]

You just have to see the dry river bed of chenab to understand what this is all about. We need to bomb the dams that india is making on these rivers.

This is not acceptable and we are ready to go to war over this issue.

Ayub Khan already sold two river Ravi and Sutlaj to India now India has no right on Chanab water .

Making Dam on Chanab river will be economic murder of 160 Million Pakistanis.

We need to defend our resources at any cost do or die satuation for Pakistan now

 

[haawk]

there is another thread on this already...

 

[Bhushan]

You just have to see the dry river bed of chenab to understand what this is all about. We need to bomb the dams that india is making on these rivers.

Don't you think that bombing dams will lead to floods in Pakistani territory?

 

[pakdefender]

Don't you think that bombing dams will lead to floods in Pakistani territory?

India is on purpose blocking the water in Chenab , we have our head works in these rivers and there is no question of flooding if the water comes in.

I've seen with my own eyes the dried river beds of my country and we are not going to let india get away with such acts of blocking the water of our rivers.

If we go to war with india over this issue , I can bet you there will be huge support from the grass roots.

We just need to BOMB the bloody dams that india is making on these rivers , we are not afraid to go to War with the Banyas and this is long over due. Stealing water is a NO NO , even between the best of negibour what to talk about inda!

 

[haawk]

are you guys blind or what there is already another thread on the same topic as i said earlier..........

http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/43162-assef-fears-war-india-over-water.html

 

[blackbriar]

its impossible to make these ppl understand the concept of global warming.that the amount of water flowing in all rivers has been reducing due to glacial melting.if pakistan is recieving less water well the water coming down from the mountain in to india is less.all the dams are running water dams allowed under the indus water treaty.
if this is difficult for u to understand or believe well then war and bombing these dams is what u can try.we are waiting.

 

[SandsofTime]

@Blackbriar

We very well know that global warming is coming. However, its not as if one year we are awash with water and the next year its coughing dry. The glacial melt will reduce only gradually over a few decades. Till then sudden mysterious disappearance of the rivers will be cause for suspicion.

 

[HAIDER]

Well, UN report says India still going to see huge water shortage in coming years...not huge,a largest and will keep on increasing. Read in paper, Dehli already seeing water shortage for daily civic supply.
Even building these dams not going to help India. Plus India forces are badly polluting Siachin Glacier, because of human life and oil spill from army machinery...a recent picture in which oil was spilling all over the ice, during unloading from helicopter etc etc...Not only this they also start organizing hiking expeditions..