Pak-India cross border firing

queer · October 7, 2014, 9:03pm

Re: Pak-India cross border firing

basically this is the propaganda of LeT/Hafiz Saeed. shame people like you believe into this hook, line and sinker.

Pakistan floods not worsened by action in India | The Third Pole

Pakistan’s chairman of the Indus Water Commission, and the head of the Indian organization that operates the Baglihar dam on the Chenab river, have both debunked reports in a section of the Pakistan media, which had alleged that current floods in Pakistan have been worsened because Indian authorities opened the gates of the Baglihar dam.

Asked if it was true that floods in the Pakistan stretch of the Chenab were due to release of water from the Baglihar dam in India, Mirza Asif Baig – chairman of the Indus Water Commission – told thethirdpole.net, “No, these floods are caused by rainfall in the basin of the Chenab river.”

Speaking to thethirdpole.net on the evening of September 5, Mohammad Riaz, a senior official in the Pakistan Meteorological Department, also categorically denied that any water released by India had been the cause of any flooding in Pakistan. Weather experts in Pakistan have said the flooding has been due to heavy rainfall.

Pakistani Islamists use floods to turn opinion against India | Reuters

“Some people will say India released the waters,” Yousaf Raza Gillani, a former Pakistani prime minister, told Reuters.

“But my question is: even if there was a timely warning from India that this was about to happen, would we have heeded it? Would this government have taken the right steps? I doubt it.”

Husain Haqqani, a former Pakistan ambassador to the United States and now a director at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C., said that water issues are being exploited to keep relations between the two countries tense.

“The Pakistani militants’ claims about floods in Pakistan being the result of India releasing torrents of water are downright absurd,” he said.

“It is part of propaganda rooted in the belief that Pakistanis must be made to see India as their permanent enemy. Blaming India also covers up for Pakistan’s own failure in water management.”