Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said on Sunday that the current floods in Pakistan were artificial and a result of water aggression on part of India against Pakistan. Talking to media persons at a local hotel on Sunday, Hafiz Saeed said India made a rehearsal of the water war against Pakistan by unleashing flood on Pakistan. He said the resolution of Kashmir dispute will resolve all other issues as in such an eventuality Kashmir along with its dams will come to Pakistan.
Hafiz Saeed said no part of Pakistan was safe from the Indian water aggression and India was destroying Pakistani economy and agriculture through such aggression for the last five years.
He said India has built 4,000 dams on rivers. He said the areas of Sialkot, Narowal, Hafizabad, Gujranwala, Mandi Bahauddin, Chiniot, Jhang and Multan face more serious threat of Indian waters.
The Jamaatud Dawa chief also expressed deep concern over inadequate relief efforts by New Delhi in the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He said Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gilani told him that up to 12 feet water was accumulated in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir but the Indian army was busy in saving its soldiers only through helicopters. He said Kashmiri flood victims were crying for help which was not there.
He commended Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for raising the issue of Kashmir in the United Nations in a befitting manner but complained that the media did not raise the issue of floods with same vigor as it did with to the Islamabad protest sit-ins.
Hafiz Saeed said through tunnels India had changed the natural routes of rivers, but no one was raising this crucial issue. He said India fully cashed in on the internal problems of Pakistan after the 9/11 and completed all the controversial water projects.
He said Pakistan will have to review the Indus Basin Treaty. He said the nation needed to be united on this crucial issue.