{"id":16362,"date":"2017-08-29T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16362"},"modified":"2017-08-29T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T10:47:08","slug":"india-violating-indus-water-treaty-khawaja-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16362","title":{"rendered":"India violating Indus Water Treaty: Khawaja Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Aug. 29 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0 Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Tuesday alleged that India was not fulfilling its commitments regarding the Indus Water Treaty and urged the World Bank (WB) to play its role in ensuring the implementation of the accord.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a seminar in the federal capital, the foreign minister highlighted the importance of building water resources following the recent climatic changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan has raised reservations over the designs of India\u2019s dams,\u201d Asif told the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The matter of Indus Waters Treaty is an important issue between the two sovereign countries, but India is not cooperating in the implementation of the accord, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the local issues regarding water distribution, Asif said that the government is only able to recover 80 per cent of the money spent on distribution of water locally. \u201cWe use water in a manner as if we have unlimited resources,\u201d he added. \u201cIf we continue to waste water like this, we will have to face some serious issues in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The previous governments had taken no initiatives to address this grave concern, complained Asif, adding that the incumbent government realized the issue and formed a separate ministry for this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Aug. 29 (TNS):\u00a0 Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Tuesday alleged that India was not fulfilling its commitments regarding the Indus Water Treaty and urged the World Bank (WB) to play its role in ensuring the implementation of the accord. Addressing a seminar in the federal capital, the foreign minister highlighted the importance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,108],"class_list":["post-16362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16364,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions\/16364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}