WAPDA Chairman Terms Unscheduled Floodwater Release by India as 5th-Gen War

Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has blamed India for pursuing 'fifth-age fighting' by discharging a huge number of cusecs of water that could cause flooding in the nation.

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On Monday, there was a flood alert in Pakistan when India supposedly released floodwater between the scope of 125,000 and 175,000 cusecs into the River Sutlej from a dam in Ladakh. 

WAPDA Chairman Muzammil Hussain named the sudden discharge as an endeavor of water-fear based oppression from the neighboring nation. 

New Delhi is at war with Pakistan. They are attempting to disconnect us carefully, choke monetarily, and to strangulate our water assets. 

He included that the move will naturally affect our economy, farming, and water system. Hussain kept up that New Delhi was utilizing its upstream position to wage "fifth-age fighting" on Pakistan.

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The ignorant arrival of water has built up a flood-like circumstance in parts of Punjab where crisis specialists are getting ready to deal with any untoward circumstance. 

New Delhi, then again, has expelled the cases by saying that it was a normal exercise during the storm season. 

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Construction work on Mohmand Dam in next two weeks: Chairman WAPDA

Administrator WAPDA Muzammil Hussain says all the fundamental arrangements have been finished to dispatch the development chip away at Mohmand Dam inside next about fourteen days.

This he said during a public interview in Islamabad on Wednesday.

He said the undertaking has been granted to the joint endeavor involving China Gezhouba, Descon and Voith Hydro in the wake of clearing all the codal customs.

He said China Gezhouba has 70% offer in the undertaking while Descon and Voith Hydro have 30% offer.

The Chairman said that all legitimate, budgetary and specialized hindrances in the method for development of the Dam have been tended to. He said the legislature has communicated the determination to give every single vital asset to finish of this exceptionally significant undertaking keeping in see the developing water shortage and to guarantee nourishment security in the nation.

Reacting to an inquiry, Muzammil Hussain said it is the main venture of its sort where the inborn individuals have given their property in a matter of hardly any months in the national intrigue. He likewise recognized the penances rendered by the innate individuals living in encompassing zones of the Mohmand Dam Project for the harmony and security of the nation.

The administrator WAPDA said his association is resolved to recapture its past magnificence by executing genuinely necessary significant Water stockpiling ventures like Diamir Bhasha and Mohamand Dams.

He brought up that WAPDA finished four significant tasks a year ago including Neelum-Jehlum hydro control, Tarbela-IV Extension, Golen Gol hydro power and Katchi Kanal ventures. He said all the four units of Neelum-Jehlum Hydro Power Project are operational presently, providing less expensive Hydro power to the national lattice.

Reacting to an inquiry, Chairman WAPDA said this task will be finished in five years. He said it will give occupations to 6,000 local people including 358 Engineers.

Muzammil Hussain said Mohmand Dam will help manage the issue of floods in Charsada and Mardan areas.