Parliament’s Special Committee on Energy Crisis has called for a speedy completion of the Neelum Jhelum project in order to stop India from diverting the course of the river. This is one of those tributaries on which depends a large part of our agriculture and hence it is highly important that it keeps flowing free of interruption, as the Indus Waters Treaty stipulates. The entire belt along the river runs the risk of turning into…
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LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is developing a project for monitoring glaciers through remote sensors, which will be put before regional countries for approval. “After consulting all stakeholders and with the prior approval of the Government of Pakistan, the project will be put up in a meeting of the Abu Dhabi Group Dialogue scheduled for December in Bangkok,” said Wapda Chairman Raghib Shah. He was speaking during meeting with a World Bank…
The writer is a political and defence analyst On October 27, 1947, the Indian forces occupied Kashmir, denying the Kashmiris the right of accession in accordance with the Independence Act of 1947. The illegal occupation resulted in the 1947-48 Kashmir war and later the 1965 and 1971 Pak-India wars. However, the accession of Kashmir remains unresolved. The method in the madness dawned on Pakistan much later. Kashmir happens to be the source of most of…