DNA Decodes: Why Afghanistan Is Building Kunar Dam – Taliban’s Water Revenge That Will Cripple Pakistan | India News

Afghanistan’s announcement that it will build a dam on the Kunar River worries Pakistan. The Taliban’s action could cut off Pakistan’s water supply, and the country has no way of stopping it. This decision came after Pakistani airstrikes on Kabul and bloodshed on the Durand Line. This dam is revenge.

India had already suspended the Indus Water Treaty signed with Pakistan. Now the Afghan Taliban is also launching a water attack. Afghanistan will build a dam on the Kunar River, which flows into Pakistan. Pakistan is currently facing a water war on two fronts.

Why did the Taliban decide to build this dam? What will happen to thirsty Pakistan when it is completed? Has India’s punitive strategy become the Taliban’s plan?

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Taliban’s Orders: Build Dam Fast, Use Only Afghan Companies

Taliban Supreme Leader Maulvi Hibatullah Akhundzada gave three orders to the Ministry of Water: Build the Kunar dam immediately, do not wait for foreign companies, use only Afghan contractors. Message: Stop Pakistan’s water supply. Fast.

Taliban Water Minister Mullah Abdul Latif Mansour shared on X: “Afghans have the right to manage their own water.” Translation: Afghanistan keeps Pakistan-bound water for itself. This decision came after Pakistani airstrikes on Kabul and bloodshed on the Durand Line. This dam is revenge.

Understanding the Kunar River: Pakistan’s Hidden Lifeline

The Kunar River stretches for 480 kilometers. It originates from the Chiantar Glacier in the Chitral region of Pakistan, passes through the Kunar and Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan, and then re-enters Pakistan via Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Eventually, the Kunar and Kabul rivers merge with the Indus River, the lifeblood of Pakistan, and irrigate the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

Afghanistan needs this dam for 1000 megawatts of hydropower to close its energy deficit. If built, Pakistan’s Kunar water flow will drop by 25-30%.

How Will the Dam Paralyze Pakistan?

Pakistan’s destruction will be catastrophic:

– Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera were the hardest hit
– Punjab facing severe impact due to reduced Kunar flow and lower Indus River levels
– Blocking 30% of Kunar water means that 120,000 decares of agricultural land cannot be irrigated
– Pakistan’s ‘food basket’ Punjab becomes vulnerable
– Blocked water can meet the water needs of 12-13 million people, imagine Pakistan’s drinking water crisis
– Pakistan’s hydroelectric power plants will produce 600 megawatts less electricity per year, enough to power 1.4 million homes
Taliban dam could plunge millions of Pakistani homes into darkness

Pakistan’s Geographic Trap: There Is No Way to Stop Afghanistan

Here is Pakistan’s despair: Although the Kunar originates in the Chitral region of Pakistan, it flows westward out of Pakistan and into Afghanistan before returning. Pakistan cannot prevent water from leaving its territory. But Afghanistan may prevent him from returning. And no water agreement is binding on Afghanistan.

Afghanistan adopted India’s formula to teach the terrorist country a lesson: Neither blood nor water flows from India to Pakistan, from Afghanistan to Pakistan. When both countries close Pakistan’s water gates, Pakistan collapses without even a single bomb remaining.