The former Foreign Minister and president of the PPP, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, said on Monday that India has the option of sharing water fairly or “we will deliver water from the six rivers (System of the Rio del Indo River).”
Delhi unilaterally suspended his participation in the 1960 Indo Water Treaty (IWT), which governs the use of the Indo River System, on April 23, shortly after 26 civilians were killed in the Kashmir controlled by India. Delhi, without evidence, blamed Islamabad for the attack. The latter has denied the accusations and requested a neutral investigation. The agreement remains inactive despite a high fire agreed by the two neighbors with nuclear weapons last month after their worst fighting in decades.
On Saturday of the Foreign Minister (FO) he had criticized the “contempt” of the Minister of Interior of India, Amit Shah, for international agreements after the latter said that New Delhi would never restore the IWT with Pakistan.
Speaking at the National Assembly during a session about the federal budget, Bilawal said: “India has two options: sharing water fairly, or we will deliver water from the six rivers.”
“The attack a Sindhu [Indus River] And the affirmation of India that the IWT has ended and is suspended, first of all, this is illegal, since the IWT is not suspended, it is binding for Pakistan and India, but the threat of stopping the water is illegal according to the UN letter, “said former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He continued that if India decides to follow the threat, we will have to fight the war again.
He added that, hopefully, Pakistan will not have to do it, but if necessary, he is in a position to defeat India in the same way he did.
Bilawal also told Lawamkers that peace between the two nuclear neighbors is impossible without cooperation, especially in anti -terrorist efforts. “If India and Pakistan refuse to speak, and if there is no coordination in terrorism, then violence will only intensify in both countries,” he warned.
He said that India was putting together terrorism for political purposes. “India seeks to exploit terrorism as a political tool to damage Pakistan’s international position,” he said, added that during his diplomatic visits to the United Kingdom and the European Union as Minister of Foreign Affairs, it became clear that India had pressed for reversing Pakistan’s progress in the front of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
“At a time when Pakistan had successfully moved from the Fatf Gray list to the white list, India did everything possible to drag us back to the Gray list using false narratives and diplomatic pressure,” he said. “But thanks to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister and his team, those efforts failed. Once again, Pakistan won, and India lost.”
Bilawal also urged the renewed dialogue between Pakistan and India to stop regional instability. He added: “We are fighting not only for the public of Pakistan but also of India.”
He strongly criticized what he called the dangerous climbing doctrine of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Under Modi’s new ‘abnormal’, any terrorist incident in India becomes an automatic pretext to launch hostilities against Pakistan,” Bilawal warned.
He questioned what would happen if Pakistan adopted the same policy. “We suffer from terrorist attacks ten times more than India, many of whom date back to Indian financing or participation. Should we adopt an automatic reprisal policy too? That would mean delivering our future to the will of the terrorists.
“That could be Modi’s vision, but it’s not ours. We will not let terrorists dictate regional peace,” he said.
Last week, addressing a multitude of followers, Bilawal had said that New Delhi must accept the IWT. Pakistan’s narrative had prevailed, not only in diplomatic circles, but also in international media, he said.
At the beginning of the month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also condemned the unilateral suspension of the IWT India, describing it as a “shameless violation and act of water aggression”, and warned that Pakistan would give a correct response in line with the decisions taken at the National Security Committee (NSC) held on April 24.
