File Photo: The Baglihar hydroelectric energy project is built through the Chenab River in the Doda de Jammu and Kashmir, India | Photo credit: Niranjana PS/The Hindu
Pakistan claimed that India has almost completely stopped the flow of water through the border through the Chenab River as fears of a clash between the two neighbors assemble after a mortal attack in Kashmir.
Since Sunday morning, the water flow has been strangled by almost 90 percent of the usual volume that passes to Pakistan, according to Muhammad Khalid Idrees Rana, spokesman for the authority of the System of the Indo River of Pakistan. The nation will be forced to cut water supplies to the farms in a fifth if the flow remains reduced, he said.
“It is not precedents,” Rana said, added that India generally contains some water daily for the generation of electricity, but releases it every few hours.
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The alleged river suffocation follows the suspension of India of the Indo Water Treaty of more than six decades with his neighbor in retaliation for the murder of 26 people in Kashmir last month. The region is controlled by these nations in part, but claimed in its entirety by both. Since then, the two countries have raised a series of TIT measures per eye, including a trade ban.
After suspending the treaty, India began working at Siling Silt in two of her dams in the Cashmiro Valley, Reuters reported Monday.
The deposits will have to be filled after the washing is completed and that can reduce the posterior flow in Pakistan, according to Himanshu Takkar, coordinator of the South Asia Network based in New Delhi headquarters in dams, rivers and wrapped to social and people. The now suspended Water Treaty of the Indo allows the washing season only the monsoon season, he said.
“In general, there will be no reduction in water flow,” Takkar said. “It is temporary. What comes, flows. Only the flow pattern can change.”
Rana also said that water could be released later, since India has no capacity to stored it permanently.
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Posted on May 6, 2025