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Karachi [Pakistan], June 1 (ANI): Amid the water crisis in Pakistan's Sindh province, the Pakistan Peoples party's (PPP) Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro called a meeting of the provincial executive committee to decide upon a plan of motion against the injustice being meted out with the aid of the Indus River device Authority (IRSA) and the prime Minister Imran Khan-led Centre.
Addressing a press conference, Sindh Agriculture Minister Ismail Rahoo accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government at the Centre of stealing Sindh's water share, reported The categorical Tribune.
He also pushed aside allegations of Sindh encroaching on Balochistan's water share and referred to that it became the Punjab province, which is stealing the water of each provinces. He additionally claimed that Sindh changed into imparting water to Balochistan by way of decreasing its own share.
Slamming the federal govt for its mismanagement, Rahoo pointed out that agricultural fields had been ravaged through locusts however the federal executive did not prolong any assist, while the inability of water is affecting the sugarcane crop the expenses of pesticides, tractors and fertilisers have additionally multiplied.
The province has confronted water shortages in the past but this federal govt is detached to the plight of Sindh's farmers, stressed Rahoo.
He additionally claimed that the federal executive had vowed to export rice crop value USD 2.5 billion however managed to export simplest USD 1.5 billion of rice crop during the past nine months, The categorical Tribune suggested.
continuing on the plight of growers, the minister stated that the Sindh govt had requested the federal government for aid in calamity-hit areas and had asked that loans payable by using farmers be waived. however, the federal government didn't pay heed.
meanwhile, the Sindh government has blamed IRSA and the federal executive fo r violating the Water Apportionment Accord 1991, but the IRSA has maintained that the water scarcity was as a result of a scarcity of water within the rivers.
Amid the rising population and local weather exchange, the availability of freshwater is becoming worrisome in South Asia, exceptionally in Pakistan, which may face absolute water scarcity through 2040.
based on a Washington-based journal, the international economic Fund (IMF) has positioned Pakistan at the third place in the list of international locations dealing with acute water shortage. in addition, the per capita availability of clean water in Pakistan has fallen beneath the water shortage threshold (1,000 cubic meters), which changed into 3,950 cubic meters in 1961 and 1600 in 1991. (ANI)
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