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Water, Energy Crisis and India's Water Aggression

India is not missing any opportunity to make Pakistan an economically, militarily, politically and socially weak state. The land of rivers is turning into deserts. India is also constructing 14 small dams on the tributaries of the Indus River, one from Jhelum and two from Baglihar. Plans are also underway to build 12 and 20 more small dams on the Chenab and all these water encroachments are taking place on the rivers that come under Pakistan's share under the Indus Water Treaty. The growing water and energy crisis in the country is intensifying, which is a moment of concern. Due to water scarcity, the area under cultivation has been reduced from 22.3 million hectares to 21.2 million hectares. It started in 1948 and is still going on. The biggest issue at the national level at the moment is India's water aggression.  The per capita amount of water in 1950 was 5830 cubic meters, now it is only one thousand cubic meters and it is estimated that by 2025 it will be only 550 cubic me...