Overview
- The Express Tribune, citing unnamed Pakistani officials, reported that India released water into the Chenab without prior intimation, with the flow measured at 58,300 cusecs.
- Those officials claim India emptied upstream dams to damage Pakistan’s wheat crop, an allegation not independently verified in the reporting.
- They further allege India could now refill the dams and sharply reduce downstream flow, describing the tactic as “water terrorism.”
- The article notes earlier reporting that India suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in May, the pact that assigns the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej to India and the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum to Pakistan.
- Separately, Pakistan’s Water Resources Ministry told the National Assembly that rapid population growth has cut per‑capita water availability, projecting 288 million people and 795 cubic meters per person annually by 2030, with current provincial figures at 679 (Khyber‑Pakhtunkhwa), 760 (Punjab), 1,169 (Sindh) and 928 (Balochistan).