India and Indians have nothing to say but guilty face with pompous conscious as big as these dams can go. I am sure many here knowing how India is bullying its neighbors and how India and Indian policy are threat to regional peace and stability.
Impact of Indian Bullying has reached in Pakistani irrigation too, which will ultimately dry up rivers and make Pakistani people look like Ethiopians (Hope not though). It's seems like 71 has been a brilliant project to keep Muslims apart and our foolishness seems to have no boundary not to understand it...
India constructing three dams in held Kashmir
Monday, February 09, 2009
By Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: India has started construction of three dams on the Indus River the lifeline of Pakistan. The construction of these dams is part of the Indian plan to generate 2,060 MW of electricity.
According to the latest study titled Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas, Pakistan is on the brink of water disaster and its availability would plunge to 800 cubic meters per capita annually by 2020 from the current 1,200 cubic meters. Just 60 years ago, 5,000 cubic meters of water was available to every Pakistani citizen.
Keeping in view the appalling water situation in the country with only two big water reservoirs Tarbela and Mangla the Indian move could prove disastrous for Pakistan.
India has already constructed and made the Baglihar power project operational at the Chenab River and it is also building more dams on the Chenab River such as Uri-1, Uri-2 projects. India plans to construct 10-20 more dams on the Chenab River alone. On the Jhelum River, India is already constructing the Kishanganga Hydropower project.
The construction of these dams in Ladakh region to produce 219 megawatt of electricity has already started in clear violation of the Indus Water Treaty and ignoring the fragile environment of Ladakh region to meet the demand of the Indian Army deployed at Siachen glacier.
Indus River has a total length 3,180 kilometres from Tibet and to Arabian Sea. It runs 404km in China and 395km in Ladakh.
This information has been faxed in a letter written by Arshad H Abbasi, visiting research fellow SDPI Islamabad to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani seeking timely action to foil the Indian move to strangulate Pakistans agriculture sector. He has also sent copies of the letter to federal ministers of water & power and environment.
According to the letter the Nimoo Bazgo power project is situated at village Alchi, 70 kilometers from Leh and the construction work is at full swing. Initially, 45 megawatt of electricity would be generated by constructing 57-metre high concrete dam on the Indus River. Excavation work for the powerhouse is 100% complete and 48% concreting for dam up to crest level has also been completed.
Dumkhar project, a 42-meter high dam, will generate 130MW of electricity. The project site is located at about 128km from Leh on Leh-Khalsi Batalik road. And another project Chutak is under construction on the River Suru, (a major tributary of the Indus River in the Indian-held Kashmir) to produce 44MW of electricity initially in Kargil district by constructing 59-metre-high concrete dam. The project started in 2006 and is likely to be completed in the next two years.
India constructing three dams in held Kashmir
