During the river flooding, Shakoor lake surpluses into the Kori Creek through the gaps formed in Allah Bund.

Geographically and environmentally, Lake Shakoor is part of the cross-border Rann of Kutch, a large seasonal salt marsh and a Global 200 Ecoregion.

The way water retention and salt extraction have been practiced in the Rann of Kutch region, is causing, and has already caused, devastating effects on the local environment; reducing the natural wildlife population, drying up and deforesting jungle habitats and mangroves, and threatening the entire regional ecosystem.

The Kutch dispute then became part of the long-running and continuing border disputes between India and Pakistan, but it originated in the 1910s between the Bombay Presidency and the Princely State of Cutch, thus predating the creation of India and Pakistan.

The borders in the Kutch Region was finally settled and effectuated on February 19, 1968, when both sides accepted the award of the Indo-Pakistan Western Boundary case Tribunal designated by the UN secretary general.