It has been repeatedly revealed by media that India is building 60 large and small dams on our three western rivers in Occupied Kashmir under the plea that Pakistan is wasting its waters into the sea.
Pakistan is smugly laying its bets on Bhasha dam while ignoring the KBD, which could have been built in half the time of Bhasha dam to solve our chronic problem of energy and water shortage. India would have completed the planned 60 dams on our rivers by the time we build Bhasha. In 12 to 15 years time India would have depleted our water on Indus to an extent that Bhasha dam would become high and dry.
World has built 45,000 large dams so far while we have built only two large dams with seven percent of world’s irrigated area which shows our criminal neglect in safeguarding our life giving waters.
As water has been declared as a fundamental right, it is incumbent on our Apex Court to treat the case of KBD before anything else, since it is a vital matter for the nation and is of great public importance.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
(II)
No number of small or medium dams can give us 6.1 million acre feet of water in five-year time. No other dam can ever trap the flood waters of the five tributaries of the Indus which will continue to wreak havoc in south Punjab and Sindh every year.
No other dam can ever give north Punjab and KPK their share of water from the dams on the Indus. No other dam can, in good time, save the people from the threat of water scarcity, food scarcity and food inflation. No other dam can, in good time, increase our very low reserves of 30 days for combating Indian designs on our rivers. No other country with rivers has less than 100-day reserves.
ENGR KHURSHID ANWER
Lahore
Go to hell Pakis! U want water, we want you to give up terrorists. It is really that simple. You break this rule, we will punish you anyway suitable to us. If attacking you militarily is not feasible, water depletion it is.
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