On May 8, 4:20 am, nkdatta2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On May 7, 3:53 pm, Tambi Dude <tambid...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > You are traitor of Muslim Ummah and Bangladesh . You are licking
toes
> > > of Indians who are bent upon killing Bangladeshis daily. By blocking
> > > water of Bangladeshi
> > > rivers, they want to starve you. But as a shameless beggar you are
> > > licking their toes. I do not care for such conscienceless persons.
>
> > > Javed Iqbal
>
> Punjab has been depriving Sindh of water for a long time. Pakistan
> wants to make new and large Dams and canals for retired army officials
> on Indus river. Kalabagh dam & Greater Thal canal are good examples.
> There is a petition on line that can be signed to protest the
> injustice to Sindh.
>
> Go to:http://www.petitiononline.com/sindhu/petition.html
>
> Here's the petition:
>
> Stop illegal constructions of Kalabagh dam & Greater Thal canal
>
> To: World Bank, Asian Bank & UNO
>
> Pakistan wants to make new and large Dams and canals for retired army
> officials on Indus river. Due to atrocities of province of Punjab now
> Sindh is facing deadly shortage of water. In fact Punjab theft the
> water of Sindh continously through centuries. In 1945 an accord was
> made in the period of Birtish rule. Now Punjab doing human rights and
> accord violations and making forcibly with the help of army, more
> large Dams and Canals on Indus river. "The term 'historic share' of
> water has no history. This term has never been used even in the
> context of the 1991 Water Accord. However, when the deliberations on
> the Water Accord were going on in 1991, the apportionment of water
> between Punjab and Sindh had to be decided. The committee decided to
> take the average of water apportioned between Punjab and Sindh from
> 1977 to 1982 for the sake of an exercise just to determine the amount
> required to be apportioned. But irrigation officials of the Punjab
> regarded it as their 'historic share' of water. According to the
> calculation of the so-called 'historic' right on water, the Punjab was
> awarded 48 MAF while Sindh got 46 MAF. But, when the 1991 Water Accord
> was finalised, Sindh was awarded 48.76 MAF of water. It is besides the
> point that the Punjab got a greater quantity of water in the accord,
> 55.94 MAF (almost 56 MAP.) Even then, the Punjab was not happy to see
> that as per the 1991 Water Accord, Sindh was drawing more water than
> the Punjab had been consuming during the years 1977 to 1982, i.e., 48
> MAF. Basing the distribution of waters on the 'averages' of
> exaggerated flow of the Sindhu Darya, was bound to lead to a major
> confrontation between the upper and lower riparian. The waters flowing
> down the Sindhu vacillates between 104 MAF and 80 MAF. How can
> apportionment be based on the average of such a wide difference in
> real flows. Surely, water apportionment depends on need. As the Sindhu
> Darya is the only source of water for Sindh, this province must be
> given its actual share specially during times of severe shortages.
>
> The Punjab, during the downswing of the cycle, has complete control of
> the waters in the Jhelum and Chenab rivers. In addition, the upper
> riparian have sweet ground water reserves of 300 MAF which they can
> draw on in times of shortages. Taking this reality into account, the
> 1945 Sindh-Punjab water agreement gave 75 per cent of the Darya's
> waters to Sindh. The Punjab, through its infamous link canals, could
> only draw water from the Sindhu during the peak flood season. That is
> all. Last year, during Nawaz Sharif's chauvinist rule, his province
> unilaterally opened the link canals in late May - early June which
> negatively affected agricultural output income in Sindh. This should
> have given the upper riparians enough sense to see the logic in
> the1945 Water Agreement. But, then, theft based on greed has its own
> perverted logic, which if repeated often enough will be believed.(By:
> Anwar Pirzado)
> The quantity of even 10 maf provisionally allocated under the accord
> is available only for 24 out of 72 years as calculated under the
> title, 'Kharif availability'. Thus it is clear that the required
> quantity of water for the substance of the environment cannot become
> available under the circumstances. It is not possible that this
> position can be improved by denying the allocations/commitments of the
> operational projects or by leaving the storages unfilled. However, it
> is important that at least further deterioration in the ecological
> conditions must be prevented. The best that can be done to save the
> environment from complete devastation is to plan future projects so
> that the minimum required discharge of 300,000 cusecs is available for
> outflow to sea at least for as much time as it is available, after
> meeting the current Kharif demand. (By: Zulfiqar Halepoto)
>
> Pakistan grows around 18 million tons of wheat per year and imports
> roughly 2 million tons. The average yield per acre is 0.81 tons
> against 0.97 tons in neighbouring India and 0.87 tons for the world.
> So is it for each and every crop in Pakistan. A few administrative
> steps like streamlining the supply of quality seed at proper time;
> sparing a pittance for research on improved seeds in our excellent
> agricultural universities; eliminating the use of spurious pesticides,
> making fertilizers available at affordable rates and mounting a
> dedicated training campaign for our Haris in the proper use of
> pesticides and fertilizers, could increase the yield per acre, while
> costing only a fraction of the Rs. 500 billion needed for the Kalabagh
> dam. And this is only the empirical side. The effect on our agrarian
> society and agricultural economy when all these concerted inputs are
> applied at the designated sectors will be tremendous. Of the 105 MAF
> at present made available at the canal heads an estimated 60% is lost
> through evaporation and seepage as follows: 15 MAF is lost in major
> river beds, 10 MAF in canals and minors, 10 MAF in watercourses and 25
> MAF on farms. (By: Abrar Kazi)"
>
> We strongly appeal to World bank, Asian bank & UNO, help us to stop
> atrocities and violations of accord of 1945 from the side of Punjab.
> If kalabagh dam and Greater Thal canal will be build, Sindh province
> will be in danger, due to destruction of Indus delta and deadly
> shortage of water.
>
> To sign the petition,
visit:http://www.petitiononline.com/sindhu/petition-sign.html?
>
>
>
> > That's all a true muslim is capable of. Declare other muslim as a
> > traitor
> > and if possible behead him. No wonder Javed told me that he hates
> > Irfan Hussain of Dawm, Reza Azmi, Pervez Hoodhboy etc.
>
> > Why would India block Bangladesh water. If we had to do it we would
> > done to Pakistan. Remember all Pak rivers start from Indian kashmir.
> > Kahani khatam. Pakistan over.
> > I wish we do that. pakistan can go to seventh century arab days when
> > they use to clean their ass by stones.
These are a few mis-guided elements who do get rejected in polls.
Pakistan will soon construct a large dam to store its huge water
resources and produce electricity.
Javed Iqbal Kaleem
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