Daily Times

HYDERABAD: Various organizations of farmers and growers have joined hands to foil Indian evil design of water aggression under which India is attempting to build dams on the Indus River to destroy agriculture of Pakistan and render our lands barren.

Around 11 organizations of farmers including Sindh Abadgar Board, Pakistan Kissan Council, Punjab Kissan Board, Balochistan Kissan Council, Balochistan Zamindar Action Committee, Azad Kashmir Kashtkar Movement and others held joint press conference here Thursday during which they stated that they have formed an alliance to challenge Indian conspiracy against agriculture in Pakistan.

Ayub Khan Meo and Abdul Rashid from Punjab, Abdul Majid Nizamani, Zulfiqar Yousfani, from Sindh and others told media that the rapidly escalating position of the Indus Basin Water Treaty by the Indian Prime Minister Nirender Modi was declaring war against Pakistan. They said the World Bank and world powers including USA and the European Community were guarantors of this treaty which was signed between Ayub Khan President of Pakistan and Jawaherlal Nehro Prime Minister of India in 1960.

This treaty remained intact even during times of war, but now Modi was going to meet US president Trump to get his support to annul IBWT. They feel the US is behind India’s threats of water terrorism against Pakistan.

They made it clear that though Pakistan has a right on 3 eastern rivers of Ravi, Satlaj and Bias but under IBWT Pakistan has already been deprived of 24 million acre feet of water. They said that to further ruin Pakistan’s agriculture the water of Kabul River was being re-routed. They said the farmers, growers, land holders and cultivators across Pakistan would not remain silent over impeding water aggression by India.

They announced to hold a Hari Conference at Hyderabad on 10th March and on 23 March at Islamabad to foster unity among agriculturists of the country to combat Indian aggression. They made an appeal to the World Bank, the US, EU and the world community to take notice of Indian threats to divert waters of Pakistani rivers.