Cutting across the Durand: Water dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan on river Kabul

Title

Cutting across the Durand: Water dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan on river Kabul

Creator

Ranjan A.; Chatterjee D.

Description

All nations firmly believe in the absolute sovereignty over the waters flow in their areas and that only riparian states have any legal right, apart from an agreement, to use the water from the shared river. To address some of their water concerns, the co-riparian states compete to have more quantity of waters. Significantly, no water agreement exists between upper riparian Afghanistan and lower riparian Pakistan, despite sharing nine big and small rivers. The simmering water dispute between them on the River Kabul is rarely noted mainly because it is overshadowed by their political tensions, differences, and the dispute over the Durand Line. Using an analytical framework, this article examines three aspects of the River Kabul water dispute: its context, identifying the challenges that hinder a formalized bilateral agreement from being implemented, and its future. 2020 Policy Studies Organization

Source

World Water Policy, Vol-6, No. 2, pp. 246-258.

Date

2020-01-01

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons Inc

Subject

Afghanistan; Pakistan; River Kabul; River Kunar; transboundary waters

Coverage

Ranjan A., Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Chatterjee D., Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 2639541X

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1002/wwp2.12033

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