New Delhi: Pakistan is feeling the heat after India suspended the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) responding to Pahalgam massacre with PM Modi announcing that blood and water would not flow together, according to NDTV.
India has reiterated that the treaty will remain in abeyance until Islamabad ‘credibly and irrevocably’ ends its support for cross-border terrorism.
Since then Pakistan has written four letters to India’s Jal Shakti Ministry requesting to reinstate the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).
The IWT was singed in 1960 in good faith and friendship, to share between India and Pakistan the waters of Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej.
The treaty remained intact even during the previous incidents of cross-border terrorism from Pakistan.
This time round India took a tough decision leaving the neigbhouring country to reel from the impact.
Even after Operation Sindoor, targeting terror camps in the neighbouring country, Pakistan wrote a letter on the IWT.
The Jal Shakti Ministry forwarded the letters to the External Affairs Ministry (MEA), according to the report.
However, India stood its ground saying the treaty will remain in abeyance until Islamabad stops supporting cross-border terrorism.
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), the top decision-making body on strategic affairs, endorsed the move to suspend the agreement brokered by the World Bank.
Thus cornered especially after Operation Sindoor, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed willingness for talks to resolve disputes between two countries.
Shehbaz Sharif’s appeal comes after several leaders including Pakistan senator Syed Ali Zafar expressed concerns about the consequences of the ‘water bomb’ hanging over the country.
Syed Ali Zafar emotionally said in May: ‘We would die of hunger if we don't resolve the water crisis now. The Indus Basin is our lifeline as three-fourths of our water comes from outside the country, nine out of 10 people depend on the Indus water basin for their living, as much as 90 per cent of our crops rely on this water and all our power projects and dams are built on it. This is like a water bomb hanging over us and we must defuse it.’
India’s strategic move including suspension of the Indus Water Treaty has shaken the neighbouring country.
Nowhere is it more apparent than when its head of global outreach Bilawal Bhutto Zardari admitted that the country was facing hurdles in presenting Kashmir issue at the international platforms especially in UN.