How Water Fuels Conflict in Pakistan

Sep 26, 2025 | Daanish Mustafa
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For ten days in April 2025, Pakistan almost came to a standstill. No freight was moving from its only port city, Karachi, towards the population centres in the north. The cause was the government’s announcement of a project to build six canals to irrigate the Cholistan Desert in the east of the country.