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Cholistan Canal Project suspension
April 30 , 2025
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- After weeks of protest in Sindh, the Pakistan government put its ambitious canals project on hold.
- The project is meant to irrigate millions of acres of previously uncultivable land.
- The canals project is the centrepiece of the larger $3.3 billion Green Pakistan Initiative.
- It is a 176-km long canal meant to irrigate the arid lands of Cholistan in southern Punjab.
- Bordering the state of Rajasthan in India, Cholistan is a part of the larger Thar desert.
- Officially, the Cholistan Canal was meant to be supplied entirely by flood water released by India on the Sutlej.
- In 2018-19, only 3.4% of the water (4.9-million-acre feet) received by the country from the Indus and its five tributaries came from the three India-controlled “eastern rivers” — Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi.
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