Rivers do not belong to any one country, they belong to all of humanity. And you cannot punish any country for whatever reason by depriving its people of water.
These are hypocrats & Pak apologists who are enjoying trips/seminars on Pak, ISI & FAI foundation money for decades. They eat & earn their livilihood on Indian soil but their heart bleeds for Pakistan.
The author does not seems to stand on his logic. It is one aspect to Punish Pakistan by making them thirsty and starving. It is one of the good political option india must consider exercising. Authors seems to be biased towards india and even does not deplore Pakistan to support terror and outfits.
described once by Khushwant Singh as being among the stupxidest people on earth, are not aware that the Brahmaputra - lifeline of the entire north east and which plays a vital role in the entire ecology of the state of West Bengal - originates and flows for more than a thousand kilometres in China before entering India !!
They are even less likely to know that, unlike the inability of India to handle the waters of the Indus and its tributaries in Kashmir if they are dammed up, China has a vast hinterland with favourable terrain conditions to divert all the waters of the Brahmaputra to !!
But what they are most unaware of is that, given the very difficult mountains encompassing the Kashmir valley, it would require several times the investments that China would need to divert the Brahmaputra for India to divert the Indus waters from Kashmir to Haryana, HP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, etc !
Re: Let's see about that later...
by piri on Sep 25, 2016 08:52 AM
He has already taught Pakistan a hard lesson !
He has brayed out from a beach in Kozhikode in Kerala that he will help Pakistani commoners fight and overcome their poverty !!
This surely is a huge embarrassment for the Paki leadership as the exhortation to their commoners to overcome poverty has come from an Indian leader who has overcome poverty in his own country and in his state of Gujarat !!
The experts are right when they say that we just do not have the storage capacity to retain the water if we stop the Indus waters from entering Pakistan. This is the direct result of almost no work done on constructing dams after the early 60s and 70s. This is also the result of the deliberate sabotage by the Congress Govt. of the Atal Behari Vajpayeee's dream project of linking the rivers. However not everything is lost. We can certainly reduce the water discharge to Pakistan till be reach an optimum level whereby we can squeeze Pakistan and yet not flood the Jammu and Punjab plains.
vehemently believing that damming up the Indus river and its tributaries in India is available as a true option for India to hit at Pakistan obviously have not stopped for a moment to think what would happen if China builds many more dams on the Zangpo river (which in India is known as the Brahmaputra) !
Oh, more likely than that, most commoners arguing for damming up the Indus are not even aware that the Brahmaputra originates and runs in China for more than a thousand kilometres before entering India !
The poor fools, like the proverbial stuxpid gunman who shoots first and asks questions later, would like India to dam up the Indus and then blink in incoherence when China so much as reduces the water flow in the Brahmaputra !
Come to think of it, China is perfectly placed to dam up Zangpo completely as it has a vast hinterland which can store and use up all the water (unlike India which will not know how to manage the floods in Kashmir even if it dams up a part of the river system) !!
