The Dialectics

The Ever Evolving Saga of Sir Creek

Fisherfolk from the coastlines of Kutch (in India) and Sindh (in Pakistan) often find themselves broiled in the geopolitics of their geography. Their livelihoods are tangled in the mesh of competing counter claims, international law while the chronic contention over the Sir Creek, (formerly known as Baan Ganga) continues. It is a mere 96 km (or 60 mile) long tidal estuary that opens out into the Arabian Sea has repelled resolution since the earliest documented dispute over logs of wood between the Rao of princely state of Kutch and the Chief Commissioner of Sindh Province in the early 20th century. It is important to underscore, that this dispute is not merely bounded by maritime boundaries but rather offshore reserves and the strategic course complicates mediation of any sort over Sir Creek....

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