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The roots of crisis

Dawn 31 Mar 2025
This is expected given the pressures that come with running a 24/7 news cycle, replete with 10 different breaking stories a day ... The latest endeavour to appropriate desert land in Cholistan and redirect water through new canals serves as an example ... X.
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FAO starts training its staff for fighting locust menace

Dawn 30 Mar 2025
During spring they are found in Balochistan while they spend the summer in Sindh and Punjab — along the Indian border in the deserts of Tharparkar, Khipro and Cholistan ... The latest Desert Locust ...
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Govt urges PPP to respond to protests against canals project

The News International 30 Mar 2025
The federal government plans to construct six canals on the Indus River to irrigate the Cholistan desert — a project that was rejected by its main ally PPP and other Sindh nationalist parties.
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The federation in crisis

The News International 30 Mar 2025
Supported by considerable Gulf investment, the project seeks to convert the Cholistan desert into productive farmland, yet Sindh contends that it jeopardises the Indus River’s flow, threatening its agricultural foundation and fragile delta ecosystem.
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PPP can utilise its strength to halt Cholistan canal project, says Sindh CM Murad

Dawn 29 Mar 2025
Five of these canals will be built on the Indus River, while the sixth will constructed along the Sutlej River, supplying approximately 4,120 cusecs of water to irrigate the Cholistan desert in Punjab.
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Lawfare limited to warfare unlimited

The News International 29 Mar 2025
From the construction of canals in the Cholistan desert to the abduction of activists and journalists in cities and towns of Pakistan; and from attacks and baton charges on Baloch protesters in ...
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Troubled waters and barren lands

The News International 27 Mar 2025
The issue of the six canals to be pulled out of the River Indus apparently to irrigate Cholistan is now well documented ... Beyond this, there is also the issue of quite what the proposed canals will achieve in Cholistan.
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CCI urged to review canals project

Dawn 27 Mar 2025
Five of these canals will be built on the Indus River, while the sixth will constructed along the Sutlej River, supplying approximately 4,120 cusecs of water to irrigate the Cholistan desert in Punjab.
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Why is Pakistan’s new canal project sparking water shortage fears?

Al Jazeera 27 Mar 2025
To build the canal, authorities have acquired 1.2 million acres (485,623 hectares) of land in Punjab, with more than 90 percent of it in the Cholistan Desert, which borders India ... the Cholistan Desert.
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PPP rallies reject Indus canals project as ‘anti-Sindh’

The News International 26 Mar 2025
He said new farmlands shouldn't be built in the Cholistan desert at the cost of the farming sector in Sindh ... PPP Karachi leader Jawed Nagori said farmlands of Sindh shouldn't be ruined to start farming in the Cholistan desert.
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PPP to hold protest rallies on March 25 against Centre's 'illegal' canal project

The News International 21 Mar 2025
The federal government plans to construct six canals on the Indus River to irrigate the Cholistan desert — a project that was rejected by its main ally PPP and other Sindh nationalist parties.
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Swallowed by the sea, Pakistan’s Indus delta now threatened by canals

Al Jazeera 17 Mar 2025
Five of those canals will be on the Indus, while the sixth will be constructed along the Sutlej River to irrigate the Cholistan Desert in Pakistan’s most populous Punjab province.
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Awami Tehreek holds rally against canals project, corporate farming

The News International 17 Mar 2025
INP. SUKKUR ... They said the current government is now selling the Indus River to corporate farming companies to develop Punjab’s Cholistan Desert, calling it a “genocidal conspiracy against 70 million Sindhis” ... .
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