{"id":4494,"date":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","slug":"india-using-river-water-as-weapon-musadik-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=4494","title":{"rendered":"India using river water as weapon: Musadik Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change, Musadik Malik has said that the core issue is not shortage or excess of water, actual issue is control over the water flow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan\u2019s climate change minister was addressing a seminar over the Indus Water Treaty in Islamabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe witness scarcity of water at Maralla Headworks on a day, while on the next day flooding comes from India,\u201d minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said, \u201caround 6,000 people have died, and thousands suffered injuries because of India, people in such huge numbers even not died in wars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is not an environmental problem, it is the matter of justice,\u201d he further said. \u201cThe actual issue has been using the water as weapon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf a robust Indus Water Treaty could not sustain than no treaty of the world would remain intact,\u201d Musadik Malik said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut India is refusing to accept decisions over the matter. If this treaty doomed to failure, every upstream country would halt flow of rivers to downstream country,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not an issue of Pakistan, but it is related to the whole world,\u201d emphasizing gravity of the issue the climate change minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change, Musadik Malik has said that the core issue is not shortage or excess of water, actual issue is control..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leading"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-175936-1.png",836,465,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-175936-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-175936-1-300x167.png",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-175936-1-768x427.png",768,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-175936-1.png",836,465,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-175936-1.png",836,465,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-175936-1.png",836,465,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Leading<\/a>","tag_info":"Leading","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}