Hydro-politics unveiled in the Kabul river conflict

Описание: Water has become the new weapon of power in South Asia. The Kabul River lifeline for millions in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is now being reshaped by India’s expanding influence inside Afghanistan. Behind the façade of “development aid,” New Delhi’s funding of Afghan dams like Shahtoot, Naghlu, Darunta, and Salma signals a clear hydro-political strategy to tighten control over Pakistan’s western rivers.

Hydro-Diplomacy or Hydro-Politics?”, exposes how the Taliban’s USD 1 billion proposal to India, combined with Indo-Afghan dam projects, threatens Pakistan’s water security, food supply, and energy production — and how Islamabad’s Chitral River Diversion Plan might be its only viable counter-move