Rivers of Hunger: How India’s Water Coercion Is Starving Pakistan’s Fields and Kashmir’s Future

Muhammad Waleed Akhtar In May 2025, a farmer in Punjab’s canal district walked into his wheat field and found the irrigation channel dry. No drought had come. No exceptional heat had reduced the snowmelt feeding the Chenab upstream. The water had stopped because India, one day after the Pahalgam attack, declared the Indus Waters Treaty

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