By Admin 
Kashmir terror attack: After the Pahalgam terror attack, India has postponed the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan. Meanwhile, on Saturday (April 26, 2025) from India, water was released into the Jhelum River in Hattin Bala area of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. Because of this, the Muzaffarabad administration has announced a water emergency. Actually, due to release of water in the Jhelum river, there was a fierce flood in Muzaffarabad.
According to the information, due to water entering the Chakothi from Anantnag district in Uri, there was a sudden severe flood in the Jhelum river, which caused fear and panic among the local people. The central government is planning to study the methods of maximum use of water of the three rivers, which Pakistan was using under the Indus Water Treaty. The proposal was placed in a high -level meeting chaired by Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, in which discussion was held in connection with the future action on the Indus Water Treaty of 1960.
Under the World Bank’s mediation water treaty, India was given special rights on the water of Eastern Rivers- Sutlej, Beas and Ravi, whose average annual flow is about 33 million acres of foot (MAF). Western rivers- Indus, Jhelum and Chenab water were allotted to Pakistan on a large scale, the average annual flow of which is around 135 MAF.
‘Not a single drop of water should go to Pakistan’
Water Power Minister CR Patil said on Friday that the government is working on a strategy to ensure that not a single drop of water goes into Pakistan. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has issued several instructions and this meeting was held to implement them.
According to sources, the government is working on a long -term plan to ensure effective implementation of its decisions. According to an official, the ministry has been asked to study the methods of using three western rivers water. Experts have talked about the lack of infrastructure that can limit India’s ability to fully use the water from the decision to suspend the treaty.
‘Water will flow towards Pakistan due to natural reason’
According to a report by the news agency PTI, Himanshu Thakkar of the South Asia Network on Dams Reverse and People (SANDRP) said that the real problem belongs to the Western rivers, where the boundaries of the infrastructure prevent us from stopping the flow of water immediately. Many of our projects are going on in the Chenab Valley, which will take five to seven years to complete. Till then, water will flow towards Pakistan due to natural reason. Once it is operational, India will have a control mechanism, which is not present in the present.
Sripad Dharmadhikari, the environment worker and founder of the Center of Manthan Study, said that India can fold the flow of water rapidly. At present, we lack the infrastructure required to prevent the flow of water in Pakistan.
(Input Jamiruddin)
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