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When Pakistan’s Sutlej River burst its banks on Sunday, it forced a mass evacuation of around 100,000 people in the Punjab province. According to at least one report, the head of Punjab’s government, Mohsin Naqvi, said the flooding was caused by India “releasing excess reservoir water into the Sutlej river, causing flooding downstream on the More

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