🚨🇵🇰Pakistan says it is ready to an “imminent” clash with🇮🇳India as New Delhi is already cutting water flows from Kashmir into the Indus River and major croplands downstream 💧Water interdependency plays a major part in the suring🇮🇳🇵🇰Indo-Pakistani tensions 🧵
A new chapter of global energy tensions is opening between India and Pakistan. In the night, New Delhi bombed several locations in Pakistan, killing 26 civilians, saying it was targeting locations where terrorists responsible for the attack of two weeks ago were hiding.
During the strike, Pakistan downed five Indian jets and now even🇨🇳China is saying that India's actions were "regrettable." Islamabad could soon respond to the attack, eventually targeting military sites and driving the confrontation towards a dangerous escalation. Meanwhile
Modi’s scheduled visit to🇳🇴Norway,🇭🇷Croatia and the🇳🇱Netherlands has been postponed. Beyond a direct military conflict, what scares the most Pakistani leaders is India's control of upstream water flows in Kashmir and the dependency of Pakistani croplands in terms of water
flows from Indian mountains. After India suspended the Indus Water Treaty, it almost entirely halted the water flows of the Chenab river, one of the six affluents of the Indus. This comes as climate change phenomena are already cutting the river's water levels by 20% in Pakistan.
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