ISLAMABAD (Kashmir Digital): Pakistan has warned India to take military action if it tries to build any facility to ‘stop or divert the water share of Pakistan’ under the Indus Water Treaty.
Security sources said that Pakistan’s political and military leadership will not even think for a minute of striking the place that endangers the provision of water to Pakistan.
Earlier, Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) categorically declared that Water is a “Vital National Interest” of Pakistan and warned that any move by India to divert the flow of water lawfully belonging to Pakistan will be “considered an act of war”.
If India threatens Pakistan’s Vital National Interest, a lifeline for its 240 million people, then Pakistan can go to any limit, including the use of nuclear weapons, security sources said.
Rejecting India’s decision to hold IWT in abeyance, the high-level meeting also noted that India’s behaviour is reckless and irresponsible, which disregards international conventions, UN Security Council Resolutions, and international obligations at will.
“The Treaty is a binding international agreement brokered by the World Bank and contains no provision for unilateral suspension,” the statement issued after the NSC meeting read.
India on Wednesday announced unilateral suspension of the 60-year-old Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan following the attack in Pahalgam in Indian occupied Kashmir, which killed 26 tourists.
