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<p>Adding <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Short_description" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Short description">short description</a>: &quot;Dispute over the sharing of river waters between India and Pakistan&quot; (<a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Shortdesc_helper" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Shortdesc helper">Shortdesc helper</a>)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Dispute over the sharing of river waters between India and Pakistan}}<br /> India and Pakistan had a dispute over the sharing of [[water rights]] to the [[Indus River]] and its tributaries in April 1948, about eight months after their independence. The [[East Punjab]] province of India shut off water running to the [[West Punjab]] province of Pakistan via the main branches of the [[Upper Bari Doab Canal]] as well as the Dipalpur Canal from the [[Ferozepur]] Headworks.{{sfnp|Salman &amp; Uprety, Conflict and Cooperation|2002|pp=42–43}} It was resumed after five weeks when Pakistan agreed to attend an Inter-Dominion conference to negotiate an agreement.{{sfnp|Salman &amp; Uprety, Conflict and Cooperation|2002|pp=43–44}}{{sfnp|Gilmartin, Blood and Water|2020|pp=210–211}} The critical nature of the Indian action caused deep apprehensions in Pakistan, which were eventually resolved only with the signing of the [[Indus Waters Treaty]] in 1960.&lt;ref&gt;{{harvp|Gilmartin, Blood and Water|2020|p=211}}: &#039;The stoppage of canal water, perhaps more than any other single event in the first year of Pakistan’s existence, gave Radcliffe’s artificial line simultaneous &quot;natural&quot; and &quot;national&quot; meaning&#039;.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Water conflict]]<br /> * [[Water resources law]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> == Bibliography ==<br /> * {{citation |last=Gilmartin |first=David |title=Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfXLDwAAQBAJ |year=2020 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-35553-8 |ref={{sfnref|Gilmartin, Blood and Water|2020}}}}<br /> * {{citation |last1=Salman |first1=Salman M. A. |last2=Uprety |first2=Kishor |title=Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia&#039;s International Rivers: A Legal Perspective |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GEr4fyDbqgC&amp;pg=PA42 |year=2002 |publisher=World Bank Publications |isbn=978-0-8213-5352-3 |ref={{sfnref|Salman &amp; Uprety, Conflict and Cooperation|2002}}}}<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Indo-Pakistani relations}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:India–Pakistan relations]]<br /> [[Category:1948 in India]]<br /> [[Category:1948 in Pakistan]]<br /> [[Category:Indus basin]]<br /> [[Category:Water conflicts]]</div>

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