Pahalgam terror attack: India pauses Indus Waters Treaty, shuts Attari border
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New Delhi: India on Wednesday announced multiple strategic countermeasures against Pakistan regarding ‘cross-border terrorism’ following the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on Tuesday.
The shocking attack on holidaymakers and tourists in halcyon meadows of the region claimed 26 innocent lives, causing outrage across the nation.
India’s highest decision making body on national security, The Cabinet Committee on Security or CCS, has taken some punishing measures against Pakistan including the indefinite suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty.
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other top officials made the crucial decisions.
The Indus Waters Treaty—signed on September 19, 1960, between India and Pakistan after the World Bank brokered the agreement— stood through three wars both countries fought in 1965, 1971, and 1999.
Another crucial countermeasure that the government announced yesterday was immediate shutdown of the Integrated Check Post at the Attari-Wagah border.
The shutdown of the check post will be cutting off a vital ‘link for trade and people-to-people engagement between the two nations’, according to India Today.
Authorities have asked Pakistanis already present in India to leave the country within 48 hours, alongside barring Pakistani nationals from travelling to India under the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme.
The Indus Waters Treaty, which offers 39 billion cubic meters of water to Pakistan from River system annually, has been what a report said the symbol of cooperation between two nations.
