Pakistani Editorial Says Nuclear War with India "Inevitable" as Water Dispute Continues

Every now and again, one reads an editorial that stops the reader in his tracks.On 8 December, with the headline "War Inevitable To Tackle Indian Water Aggression," Pakistan’s Urdu-language Nawa-e Waqt, issued such a screed.

Nawa-e Waqt bluntly commented on India’s Kashmiri water polices and Islamabad’s failure up to now to stop New Delhi’s efforts to construct hydroelectric dams in Kashmir, “India should be forcibly prevented from constructing these dams.

If it fails to constrain itself, we should not hesitate in launching nuclear war because there is no solution except this.”...more