Until now, India has refused to reconsider its decision to celebrate the Indo Water Treaty (IWT) in suspense, but the fact is that it cannot completely stop the flow of rivers in Pakistan, given the current infrastructure it has, according to a report on the website of the Al Jazeera channel.
But experts warn that even a small diversion or blockade could damage Pakistan, if India managed to stop the flow of the Indo basin rivers. They warn that any movement of this type could prepare the stage for a complete war between two countries.
In April, India said he was leaving the IWT after the gunmen killed 26 tourists in India illegally occupied Jammu Cashmira (Iiojk). A day later, the National Security Committee (NSC) of Pakistan rejected the “unilateral” movement, warning that “any fun of Pakistan water must be treated as an act of war.”
The 85 -page IWT negotiated by the World Bank and signed in 1960 is different from most global water treaties that share water according to their total volume of flows. On the contrary, the IWT divides the rivers: three Eastern rivers to India and three Western rivers to Pakistan.
The treaty was a “hydraulic partition” that followed the political partition, Majed Akhter, head of geography at King’s College London, told Al Jazeera. “It was necessary to solve the problems of the operation of an irrigation system integrated in Punjab,” he added.
However, Akhter said that the exchange of water among the neighbors is linked to their coffee dispute. “The territorial control of Kashmiro means the control of the Indo waters, which is the main source of water for the very agrarian economies” of Pakistan and India, he added.
