Islamabad:
The floods in Pakistan of water flowing downstream from India were aggravated by the suspension of New Delhi of a treatise for river sharing and the collapse of the doors of an Indian dam, Pakistani officials announced on Friday.
Torrential monsoon feathers ravaged neighboring opponents of India and Pakistan this week, with new heavy showers for this weekend.
Friday, in eastern Pakistan, flooding waters struck the outskirts of the second largest city in the country, Lahore, and threatened to overwhelm the big city of Jhang, in the worst floods in almost 40 years in this part of the country.
Nations share rivers from India and take place in Pakistan, regulated for more than six decades under the Industry Water Treaty.
This agreement was suspended by India this year, following the shooting of 26 people by activists who, according to New Delhi, were supported by Islamabad, which Pakistan denies.
The Minister of Planning, Ahsan Iqbal, told Reuters that the data on the water flows which were shared by India under the treaty did not pass in Pakistan fairly quickly or in details sufficiently in detail.
“We could have managed better if we had better information,” said Iqbal. “If the Industry Water Treaty was in service, we could have mitigated the impact.”
The central section of Madhopur dam, which extends over the Ravi in India river, was swept away by an increase in water, videos showed on Thursday by the Indian media.
Pakistani officials said these damage had launched an uncontrolled flow through the border, flooding certain parts of Lahore on Friday.
A source from the Indian government denied that there was a deliberate attempt to flood Pakistan, while confirming that two doors of the Madhopur dam had broken.
Indian authorities were trying to stem the flow on the Ravi river, despite damage to the dam, and the flow was controlled by the Ranjit Sagar dam upstream, said the source, which refused to be identified, citing government policy.
“India does everything that can be done and all the information is transmitted,” said the source. “The incessant rain causes this flood.”
The Ministries of Foreign Resources and Water from India did not immediately respond to requests for comments on the file. India has sent four flood alerts to Islamabad since Sunday, according to Pakistani officials, including a warning on Friday.
New Delhi recognizes the transmission of warnings, for humanitarian reasons, but has not provided details.
When India put the 1960 in suspense treaty, it stopped sharing information between water officials. Instead, warnings were sent this week via the India Embassy in Islamabad.
Iqbal, whose own district of Narowal, near the Indian border, was seriously flooded, said that climate change had made the annual monsoon less predictable, which makes it more essential to share data.
“Climate change is not a bilateral problem,” said Iqbal. “This concerns humanity.”
