{"id":88270,"date":"2020-03-11T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2020-03-11T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T10:05:14","slug":"sir-creek-issueindia-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sir-creek-issueindia-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Creek Issue:India-Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently, the former Pakistan Minister has said that it had invited the then Indian Prime minister to sign an agreement on Sir Creek in 2006.However,the agreement was not signed.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Sir Creek:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sir Creek is a 96-km strip of water disputed between India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch marshlands.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The Creek opens up in the Arabian Sea and roughly divides the Kutch region of Gujarat from the Sindh Province of Pakistan.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Importance of Sir Creek:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sir Creek\u2019s core importance is fishing resources.It is considered to be among the largest fishing grounds in Asia.<\/li><li>The creek is also important due to possible presence of great oil and gas concentration under the sea which are currently unexploited due to dispute on the issue.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Dispute:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The dispute lies in the interpretation of the maritime boundary line between Kutch and Sindh.\u00a0<\/li><li>Before India&#8217;s independence,the provincial region was a part of the Bombay Presidency of British India.But after India&#8217;s independence in 1947, Sindh became a part of Pakistan while Kutch remained a part of India.<\/li><li>Pakistan claims the entire creek as per Bombay Government Resolution of 1914 signed between then the Government of Sindh and Rao Maharaj of Kutch.<\/li><li>However,India claims that the boundary lies mid-channel as depicted in another map drawn in 1925 and implemented by the installation of mid-channel pillars back in 1924.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/vW1Pn09dxRfVMAj0r93CN6WLm0I7cLW07GmOrsxS9_RB6S32BM956ieeU3ChOfCpAKJLT3_8KkSBKW5TFCbMZlhelM3rp5RLgxr5yebUBCNZLG2NqATZwMR8C5Ay07SXxW-jo5aW\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently, the former Pakistan Minister has said that it had invited the then Indian Prime minister to sign an agreement on Sir Creek in 2006.However,the agreement was not signed. Facts: About Sir Creek: Sir Creek is a 96-km strip of water disputed between India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch marshlands.&nbsp; The Creek opens&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sir-creek-issueindia-pakistan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sir Creek Issue:India-Pakistan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[369,5962],"class_list":["post-88270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-india-pakistan","tag-sir-creek","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}