Expect India to 'immediately' resume Indus Waters Treaty: Pakistan

Pakistan urges India to resume Indus Waters treaty

Pakistan has asked India to 'immediately' resume the Indus Waters Treaty in the wake of the Court of Arbitration's ruling stating that India must “let flow” the waters of the western rivers for Pakistan’s unrestricted use, which New Delhi temporarily suspended following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam.

However, India has historically rejected such arbitration over project designs.

India has never recognised the proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration after Pakistan raised objections to certain design elements of the two projects under the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty.

Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, on his visit to the US on Sunday, commented on New Delhi's decision to put the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance.

He also threatened to target any future Indian dams on the Indus River. He has also warned that Pakistan has no dearth of missiles and would obliterate any dams India decides to build on the river.

He even made a nuclear threat against India and the world, saying, "if we think we are going down, we'll take half the world down with us".

Pakistan politician Bilawal Bhutto issued a war threat to India over the suspension of the decades-old Indus Water Treaty, saying New Delhi's actions caused "great damage" to Pakistan and urged all Pakistanis to "unite" against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

India took a series of punitive measures against Pakistan that included putting the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 in "abeyance" after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also made clear that "terror and talks cannot go together; water and blood cannot flow together."

"We will not see terrorists and their state sponsors separately," PM Modi said. "Terrorists being fed by Pakistan will destroy Pakistan itself one day."

"Instead of supporting India’s fight against terror, Pakistan chose to attack schools, colleges, religious sites, and military installations. But the world saw how their drones and missiles failed against India’s air defence systems. While Pakistan tried to strike our borders, we hit them at their core," PM Modi further added.