{"id":74769,"date":"2018-08-06T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74769"},"modified":"2018-08-06T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:50:21","slug":"construction-of-dams-an-unassailable-challenge-for-the-new-regime-zafar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74769","title":{"rendered":"Construction of Dams an unassailable challenge for the new regime: Zafar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, August 6 (TNS): Caretaker Information and Broadcasting Minister Barrister Syed Ali Zafar said on Monday that the water crisis in the country is a reality and the whole nation will now have to stay united to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>In a media talk, Barrister Ali Zafar said that Indus Water Treaty was signed in 1960 with India and admitted that Kala Bagh Dam should have been constructed a long time ago, however the four provinces could not come up with a consensus on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that, \u201cIt is a possibility that misunderstanding between the provinces was caused by external forces, but then again why weren\u2019t other dams constructed in the meantime??\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Information Minister said that according to the treaty 3 eastern rivers are in control of Indian territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately we constructed only two dams since the treaty was signed, Mangla and Tarbela and even those two dams don\u2019t possess sufficient capacity\u201d said Zafar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstruction of dams will be an unassailable challenge for the new government\u201d , he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, August 6 (TNS): Caretaker Information and Broadcasting Minister Barrister Syed Ali Zafar said on Monday that the water crisis in the country is a reality and the whole nation will now have to stay united to overcome it. In a media talk, Barrister Ali Zafar said that Indus Water Treaty was signed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74769","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=74769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74770,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74769\/revisions\/74770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}