Afghanistan is planning to build a dam on the Kunar River to restrict the flow of water into Pakistan, following India’s example of suspending water sharing under the Indus Waters Treaty earlier this year. IMPORTANCE OF KUNAR RIVERStretching nearly 500km, the Kunar River originates in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in the Chitral district of the Hindu Kush mountains. It flows south into Afghanistan, passing through the Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, before merging with the Kabul River at Jalalabad. The Kabul River then joins another tributary, the Pech River, before turning eastward into Pakistan, where it flows into the Indus River near Attock in Punjab province. While the Indus Waters Treaty governs river sharing between India and Pakistan, there is no such treaty between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
