Pakistan may likely cease to exist by 2030.
By 2027, Pakistan will have 25% population without access to water. Since 70 years, they have not built any further dams or irrigation projects. They are literally running out of water.
Sutlej, Ravi and Beas which provide 65% of water to Indus basin is fully tapped and diverted by India. India uses 92% of these 3 rivers.
Modi has planned to make it 100%. They have started almost 15 dams in Kathua - Jammu belt to divert tributaries of Ravi to stop their flow to pak. Chenab officially is not under control but still we have tapped 25% of its water..
Pakistan has Indus, Chenab and Jhelum for use. Indus is a dry river as it passes through cold desert Ladakh which has few snow and no rain, Jhelum doesn't have such a huge water to feed Pakistan, this leaves only chenab but India has already tapped 25% chenab water to feed Jammu.
AVERAGE DISCHARGE VALUES OF PAK RIVERS 2020(LITRES/SECOND)

Indus- 65 lacs L/sec
Chenab 7 lacs L/sec
Jhelum- 2.2 lacs L/sec

Compare this with Ganga (having 97 dams)- average discharge 2020- 6 crore L/sec
For 45 crores population, pakistan needs some 3 crore L/sec water from Indus if it wants to live by Indian standard

If India uses another 20%, Indus discharge will decline to 2 lacs L/sec which is even worse than Godavari river which has 3 lacs L/sec discharge in hot summers.
Godavari supports some 9 crore people while Indus supports some 17 crore people by 2020. No wonder they want Kashmir for water.
by 2025, Indus discharge will decrease to 4 lacs L/sec

This will put the so called mighty Indus even behind Krishna river

They have only 1 big dam on Indus Tarbela Dam that too built by british standards,.

And they have another Mangla Dam in Mirpur on Jhelum
Tarbela's capacity has shrunk drastically because of sedimentation over the years.

They dont have any dam or plan on Chenab (which is officially under their control), while India has built 13 small big dams on Chenab.
Karachi and Lahore metropolitan cities has 8-9 hours of power cut in summers while Shimla in Himachal has 24 hours power supply.

They dont even have enough coal to run thermal power plants while they have 0 nuclear plant
Just compare the population growth of twin cities of Lahore Amritsar which are just 20 kms apart

In 1947, both had 4-6 lacs population. both received equal migrants. Amritsar is at 13 lacs while Lahore at 1.5 crore in 2020.
Even if u subtract urban migration, Lahore still has 56 lacs people extra who grew only by breeding.

Rural KP has 4.8 TFR
Balochistan has 3.7 TFR
Urban Sindh at 2.2
Rural Sind at 3.6
Pak overall has 3.7 TFR
Waziristan belt has 4.9 TFR highest in Pakistan
Karachi is going to look like Dhaka by 2030

It already has just 15% green cover (Mumbai has 58%, Delhi at 43%), it has severe shortage of water and power. Excessive concreting has led to urban thermal effect leading to 49-51°C temperature in summers.
Pakistan as of 2020 produces enough grains to feed just 67% of its population..rest is imported

The Consumer Price Index is at 0.8 scale...ie wheat is 90 rs/kg as compared to rs 14/kg

Cheese which is 200-220 rs/kg in india is 1300 rs/kg in Pakistan
Milk which is rs 40/L in India is 514 rs/L

By 2050, their ground water will decline to 45% while Indian gw will decline to 65%
China is trying hard to keep them afloat by giving them loans but now even china has stopped giving loans since Pak cannot pay

Pakistan uses 92% of its revenue to just pay interest on loans (don't even start on the principal sum lol)

They are postponing installments
They paid Saudi installments by getting another loan from china. They are getting loan to pay another loan.

By 2023, Pak will have a free fall in its economy similar to Zimbabwe.
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