Islamabad, 12/7: Two and a half months after suspending the India-Pakistan Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in the wake of the April 22 terrorist attack near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi has quietly set in motion an ambitious plan — one that could change water resource management in the Union Territory and other northern states, reignite interstate tensions, and escalate geopolitical tension with Islamabad.
A 113-kilometre-long canal is at the centre of the plan for the inter-basin transfer of water – a project that aims to divert surplus flows from J&K to Punjab, Haryana and even parched Rajasthan
