After the horrific pahalgam terror incident, india suspended the Indus Water Treaty, and pakistan retaliated with a ridiculous move that will make you laugh uncontrollably. The Cholistan Canal project has reportedly been put on hold by Islamabad in retaliation for India's suspension of the crucial Indus Water Treaty.
The irony is that if india stops providing water to the canal, the Cholistan Canal project is essentially worthless. According to sources, following India's decision to suspend the treaty, pakistan prime minister Shahbaz Sharif met with PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and the two agreed to put a stop to the contentious canal project.
Sharif and Zardari agreed that the project would be placed on hold until the Council of Common Interests, a high-level interprovincial body that handles conflicts between Pakistan's provinces, could agree.
In february of this year, punjab Chief minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif and pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir officially opened the Cholistan Canal project. Several political parties, including the pakistan Peoples party (PPP), which is a member of the ruling coalition with the pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N in Islamabad), staged protests in the Sindh province in response to the project's opening, which was intended to improve irrigation in Pakistan's arid punjab province.
Notably, following India's announcement of the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty in the wake of the pahalgam terror assault, Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari took a united stance. "We agreed at the PPP-PML-N meeting that no new canals will be constructed until a mutually agreeable conclusion is made. At a joint press conference with Bilawal, Sharif informed reporters that without a provincial agreement, no more work on the canals could be done.
The irony is that if india stops providing water to the canal, the Cholistan Canal project is essentially worthless. According to sources, following India's decision to suspend the treaty, pakistan prime minister Shahbaz Sharif met with PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and the two agreed to put a stop to the contentious canal project.
Sharif and Zardari agreed that the project would be placed on hold until the Council of Common Interests, a high-level interprovincial body that handles conflicts between Pakistan's provinces, could agree.
In february of this year, punjab Chief minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif and pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir officially opened the Cholistan Canal project. Several political parties, including the pakistan Peoples party (PPP), which is a member of the ruling coalition with the pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N in Islamabad), staged protests in the Sindh province in response to the project's opening, which was intended to improve irrigation in Pakistan's arid punjab province.
Notably, following India's announcement of the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty in the wake of the pahalgam terror assault, Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari took a united stance. "We agreed at the PPP-PML-N meeting that no new canals will be constructed until a mutually agreeable conclusion is made. At a joint press conference with Bilawal, Sharif informed reporters that without a provincial agreement, no more work on the canals could be done.
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