How India-Afghanistan Camaraderie Raises Concerns In Islamabad

A vital construction in India and Afghanistan is shifting nearer when it comes to cooperation, specifically within the water sector, posing a major problem to Pakistan.

India had previous scrapped the Indus Waters Treaty after the Pahalgam terror assault, triggering panic in Pakistan. Now, Afghanistan is getting ready to construct dams at the Kabul and Kunar rivers, either one of which glide into Pakistan. India has pledged monetary improve for the Shahoot (Lalander) Dam undertaking at the Kabul River, whilst Afghanistan plans to build a dam at the Kunar River independently.

In nowadays’s DNA, Zee News Managing Editor Rahul Sinha analysed how the rising friendship between India and Afghanistan has larger tensions in Islamabad.

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These rivers are necessary for Pakistan, specifically the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, for ingesting water and agriculture. Pakistan receives just about 17–18 billion cubic meters of water from those rivers. Blocking or regulating this glide may lead to decreased ingesting water provide, failed plants and heightened political tensions between Kabul and Islamabad.

Unlike India, which has a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan, Afghanistan has no such settlement. Therefore, Kabul is underneath no legal responsibility to hunt Pakistan’s popularity of those tasks. India’s renewed improve for Afghanistan’s dam tasks alerts a strategic transfer to accentuate power on Pakistan.

Experts say {that a} coordinated “water strike” by way of India and Afghanistan may depart Pakistan in a critical disaster. Adding to this, India has ceased all industry with Pakistan whilst concurrently bettering cooperation with Afghanistan.