MANCHHAR Lake, which is situated at the foot of the Kirthar range, was once Pakistan’s largest freshwater body with a pristine wetland ecosystem. Effluents, poor planning and negligible inflows from regular sources have reduced it to a polluted puddle. A vast stretch of the lakebed, beyond Bund Manchhar, has been parched for many months, putting fishermen’s livelihood at risk as they now catch fewer fish. The lake’s well-being long relied on regular freshwater inflows from the Indus and hill torrents — a........

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