India Is Disrupting Indus Water Flows, Pakistan Minister Says
India is manipulating the flow of rivers that run into Pakistan by 'holding and releasing, holding and then flooding,' Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Musadik Malik said Monday in an interview in London. While India lacks the storage capacity to completely stop the water, Malik noted that 'when the water was needed for crop sowing, it was not available' over the past month.
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