Water Scenario: Past, Present and Future of Pakistan

I have glanced through this article. I have not read it fully. I just want to get a few things off my chest before the mud fight begins.

One, the Govt of India(GOI) and the technical experts and advisors it employs are not stupid. It is very fashionable to think so, especially among the Uber Pakis. But reality bites.

Two, the GOI takes the treaties and obligations it has signed very very seriously and will abide by them at all costs. It will not sign a treaty that it considers harmful to its interests regardless of the price it will have to pay for the defiance. Examples -- NPT, CTBT, FCMT etc.

This is further evidenced by the fact that even Uber Pakis admit that the Inida abided by the Indus water treaty even during the 65, 71 and the Kargil wars. The GOI's fights are always with the Paki administration and NOT with the ordinary people.

Also, please note that the GOI did not "lose" the recent arbitration hearings on Bhaglihar conducted by the neutral Swiss expert recently. Bhaglihar is operational today substantially as it was designed and built except for a few changes specified by the arbiter -- which were complied with by GOI.

Three, the uber Pakis who will inevitably crawl out of the woodwork and shout as if they they themselves wrote the Indus water treaty and paint India as the villian, please note, your opinion does not matter in the least, and neither does the opinion of the Uber Indian nationalists.

The treaty will be interpreted by a mutually acceptable neutral expert as specified in the treaty itself and his/her opinions are all that matters.

What is most important is that once a judgment has been delivered, if one party does not like it and has no legal ways to appeal it, it should accept it gracefully. Regardless of who is on the losing side -- be it India or Pakistan.

Having said that, it would help matters immensely if we could all refrain from rehashing and retrying arbitration hearings that are already closed. It is a futile exercise. It is better to focus on upcoming open issues that will need to be resolved.

Finally, please note, the people who are pushing for these dams to be built and those who will be the primary beneficiaries and consumers of the power generated are the people of Jammu & Kashmir.