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Dar Warns India's Water Projects Aim to Establish 'Hydro-Hegemony'
Dar said reservoir and diversion schemes on the Indus system could give India control over downstream flows and threaten water security for millions of Pakistanis.
- On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar warned at a Brussels conference that India is pursuing a strategy of "hydro-hegemony" through at least 17 projects designed to drastically alter the Indus River System.
- The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, which allocates western rivers like the Chenab to Pakistan, has faced significant strain since India announced it was placing the accord "in abeyance" last year following a deadly tourist attack.
- New Delhi is pursuing initiatives including the Sawalkot, Kirthai, and Kwar hydroelectric projects, while the proposed Chenab-Beas Link Tunnel intends to divert 1.9m acre feet of water annually from the Chenab system.
- Pakistan labeled India's actions "water weaponisation" and a "catastrophe in the making," maintaining that any attempt to change cross-border waterway flows would be considered an "act of war."
- Citing European examples of successful transboundary cooperation, Dar urged the international community to reaffirm that cooperation, not coercion, must guide shared water governance and promote regional stability.
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Pakistan assails 17 Indian projects on Indus waterways, calls them ‘tools for hydro-hegemony’
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Thursday that at least 17 projects by India on waterways part of the Indus River System would give New Delhi the “tools for hydro-hegemony”. Dar’s statement has come at a time when water and the Indus Waters Treaty remain a contentious issue between India and Pakistan, following New Delhi’s unilateral abeyance of the accord last year — a move that followed a brief military conflict bet…
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