Comments on: CHASHMA, MAIN CAUSE OF INDUS ARIDNESS/2010/07/07/chashma-main-cause-of-indus-aridness/Name of Excellence in alternative & borderless journalism.Together we stitch the world & make a difference. Leading today for tomorrow. Sindh lives hereFri, 09 Jul 2010 17:26:59 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: hassan/2010/07/07/chashma-main-cause-of-indus-aridness/comment-page-1/#comment-10141Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:26:59 +0000/?p=9746#comment-10141THIS ARTICLE IS REALLY FUNNY!!!
“Not only these two projects have been proved harmful for Sindh but the Indus basin Treaty with India in 1960 by the first Dictator regime of Pakistan under the leadership of Ayub whose Marshalaw caused the breakup of the country after his ruler ship of 10 years.”

This is the most fun part.Pakistan broke up due to;

-corruption
-lack of truly sincere government which led to regional inequality
-hoarding of wealth in a few hands
-Government permission for ethnic nationalists to promote propaganda

This treaty had NOTHING to do with East Pakistan and you should be praising it as it was formulated to prevent India from turning Sindh(I was gonna say Pakistan but you only seem to care about Sindh) into a dessert by stopping water flow.

“These both projects of Irrigation on Indus river are the main reasons for making the Indus River arid and dry and have turned the Sindh Land barren and uncultivated since 2-3 decades.”

“Now the question arises as to why not the then leaders and politicians of Sindh raised voice to establish such harmful projects of irrigation on the Indus River and still it is being planned to establish more such projects on the Indus which if constructed will surely turn the whole Sindh province in total dryness and aridness causing more erosion of the land of Sindh province by the Indian Ocean at its coastal areas spreading many kms of the land at the upper side of the ocean.”

There have been several plans to tap the water potential Sindh has been endowed with,especially lower Sindh,over te years.These plans,though affordible and profitable for Sindh.Have been shelved by Sindh’s leaders continuously.It is easier for them to eat up the funds that could have gone into funding the projects and then blaming Punjab for the water shortage.They are better than you,atleast,as they also accuse India for stealing water,something you Sindhi nationalists not only ignore but also side with india.Here’s an excerpt from an article posted here;

“HYDERABAD: Eminent water expert and former chairman of the Technical Committee on Water Resources (TCWR) A.N.G. Abbasi said on Friday that small dams were more harmful than Kalabagh dam and advised the government to refrain from building them.

He said Kalabagh dam was not harmful if rules of the game were set and strictly adhered to. But since there were no rules, it was not acceptable to the people of Sindh, he added.

Addressing a conference on “Save River Indus”, organised by Sindh Democratic Forum (SDF) and Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO), Mr Abbasi said that at the time of partition, River Indus used to get 80MAF of water, but after the 1960’s Indus Water Treaty, it was being given 8MAF of water.

He said, under the treaty India was competent to even store floodwater. The treaty authorised it to irrigate 1.35 million acres of land, of which India had brought 800,000 acres under cultivation.

He said it was also entitled to build hydel project and it was not bound to share shortage of water with Pakistan under the treaty.

He said that since the NWFP and Balochistan were not bound to share water shortage, there remained no justification for them to be part of Indus River System Authority.”

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