It has been reported in the national English press that this year wheat sowing has gone down by one million acres which means Pakistan would need to import a million tons of wheat to feed the people. This episode is the direct result of India stopping our water supply by building scores of dams an our western rivers ostensibly to generate power on run of the river basis while constructing gates on the rivers so as to control the water flow.
As such India is slowly but surely trying to constrict our jugular artery to starve us by water deficit as also food deficit with the human population increasing every year and wheat supply decreasing each year. This would be a sure recipe to create famine like conditions in Pakistan while our rulers are smugly reporting that India would release a minimum of water supply from Kishanganga dam on Neelam River which in fact belongs to us as per Indus basin treaty. When would our rulers wake up to see the designs of India?
DR M YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
