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THE PRESSURE ON PAKISTAN IS INCREASING
- India’s stand to make sure Pakistan gets included in FATF black list
- Indian companies breaking ties with Pakistan
- India’s friendly countries supporting India and condemning Pulwama terror attacks
THE PRESSURE HAS PAID OFF
Pakistan on 21st February 2019 banned the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawa and its charity wing Falah-eInsaniat Foundation, amid intense global pressure to rein in the militant groups following the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF soldiers.
THE PRESSURE HAS PAID OFF
The decision to ban these groups was taken during a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Earlier, the two outfits were kept on the watchlist of the interior ministry.
- JuD’s network includes 300 seminaries and schools, hospitals, a publishing house and ambulance service. The two groups have about 50,000 volunteers and hundreds of other paid workers.
- The US Department of the Treasury has designated its chief Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the US, since 2012, has offered a USD 10 million reward for information that brings Saeed to justice.
- Saeed was listed under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008. He was released from house arrest in Pakistan in November 2017.
INDIAN GOVERNMENT IS NOT DONE YET
Minister for Road Transport and Water Resources Nitin Gadkari says the water from “eastern rivers” will be diverted to Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
India will not allow its share of water from the Indus network of rivers to flow into Pakistan, Minister for Road Transport and Water Resources Nitin Gadkari said
INFORMATION
As per the Indus Waters Treaty, signed between India and Pakistan in 1960, India has full rights to utilise the waters of the Ravi, the Beas and the Satluj rivers, while the waters of the Indus, the Chenab and the Jhelum belongs to Pakistan.
EASTERN RIVERS:
Sutlej
Beas
Ravi
WESTERN RIVERS:
Jhelum
Chenab
Indus
IMPACT OF THIS ON PAKISTAN
80% of Pakistan’s 21.5 million hectares of farmland is irrigated by river Indus and its tributaries. Reducing the water flow to Pakistan will unleash havoc there (especially in Punjab and Sindh province).
Of the total 168 million acre-feet, India’s share of water from the three rivers is 33 million acre-feet, which constitutes nearly 20 per cent. India uses nearly 93-94 per cent of its share under the Indus Waters Treaty.
The rest of the water remains unutilised and flows to Pakistan. This is the water that India has decided to stop.
DAM CONSTRUCTION
Mr. Gadkari announced that the construction of a dam had started at Shahpur-Kanti on the Ravi and the Ujh multi-purpose project would store the Indian share of the water for use in Jammu and Kashmir and the balance water would flow from second the Ravi-Beas link to provide water to other basin States.
These schemes had been declared national projects.
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