The Pakistani Spectator

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Posts Tagged ‘Baglihar Dam’

Will India Talk?

By Dr. Haider Mehdi • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Will India talk to Pakistan and have a meaningful dialogue to resolve long-standing disputes between the two countries? The question is vital for the peaceful co-existence of nuclear armed neighbors and for the future strategic geo-political posturing that involves American-Chinese relations. The new world global order is going to be shaped in the political landscape [...]



India’s Aqua War

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The word ‘rival’ comes from the Latin ‘rivalis’ meaning ’some one sharing a river’. A water war between two Sumerian city states Lagashand Umma 4500 years ago is recorded on a stone carving showing vultures flying off with the heads of the impoverished and defeated Umma people.
Only history itself can convince one of such a [...]



Water Crisis

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Water is life and life is water. With two thirds of the earth’s surface covered by water and the human body consisting of 75 percent of it, it is evidently clear that water is one of the prime elements responsible for life on earth. Water circulates through the land just as it does through the [...]