Pakistan is left with no option but to take its complaint urgently to the UN Security Council for the protection of human rights of over 180 million people and safety of their country to stop India building high dams on Western Rivers.
For the survival of Pakistan, a task force comprising experts of Punjab irrigation, international law and senior diplomats having experience of working in UN Security Council be formed backed by Ministry of Water and Power and Indus Water Commissioner of Pakistan.
These thoughts were shared by Engr Bashir A Malik, Former Chief Technical Advisor of UNO and World Bank and Chairman of Save Water Save Pakistan Forum during a seminar organised by Tech Club on World Water Day 2012 here on Thursday Malik also said that India was using Indus Water Treaty as an Indian weapon of water war against Pakistan. She can devastate Pakistani areas by stopping water or flooding them at any time without using a missile or bomb, he added.
He said that at the time of signing Indus Water Treaty Pakistan's President Ayub Khan expressed the hope that our outstanding problems like Kashmir will also be resolved amicably but how sad it was that even after over 60 years peace in the region and Kashmir issue remained as elusive as ever. Regarding economic development India did develop immensely.
For example Indian State of Rajisthan prior to the Treaty was but a burning desert host to shifting sands, dunes, snails and snakes. Today it is a thriving region resplendent with vistas of waving green fields, orchards and new towns humming with life, Bashir pinpointed. It is one of the miracles of Pak water share of Eastern Rivers unjustly given to India. Insofar as Pakistan was concerned large tracts of her once irrigated land were on the verge of turning into barren wastes for want of water. In short, the Treaty was all gain for India.
For Pakistan it is a nightmare of unremitting losses for posterity. It is well over a year that the US Senate Committee report regarding construction of 190 dams by India on our Western Rivers appeared in banner headlines in the press. But not a whimper in protest was heard neither from President or Prime Minister neither from any of the army of their over 90 ministers, advisors and top government functionaries, Engr. Bashir complained. How callous has been the government in Islamabad to reward India by the grant of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status?
Engr Abdul Majeed Khan, President Tech Society, Engr Shafqat Masood, Former Chairman Irsa, Engr Mansoor Ahmed, Former MD Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Foundation, for Justice Nasira Iqbal, Dr Muhammad Sadiq, Agricultural Scientist and Zubair Sheikh President Tech Club also spoke on this occasion.
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