Question

Paragraph on Water heroes

Answer 1

The first on our list of water-sector heroes should be president Ayub Khan for timely resolving the river water issues with India by signing the much misunderstood Indus Waters Treaty in 1960. The treaty was a meaningful achievement even though Ayub Khan’s name would remain mired in controversy for his strategic miscalculations in planning the 1965 war and, subsequently, the separation of East Pakistan.

Securing the waters of Indus, Jhelum and Chenab became possible because Pakistan then was at par with India in every way. The treaty led to the construction of the Tarbela and Mangla dams, the diversionary barrages and irrigation canals; imagine the country without these two life sustaining reservoirs.