Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said Thursday that the Simla Agreement between India and Pakistan was no longer applicable after the first violated the Indo Water Treaty (IWT).
India maintained the IWT in suspense after the additional deterioration in relations between the two countries after the attack of the pahalgama on April 22 in Cashmira busy. In retaliation, Pakistan decided that he would exercise the right to conclude all bilateral agreements with India, including, among others, the Simla Agreement, in suspense. He also announced the closure of the border with Wagah and the suspension of all trade with New Delhi, among other measures.
The agreement was signed between Pakistan and India after the 1971 war; The signatories are Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Indira Gandhi. The agreement, among other things, stipulated that none of the parties would take any action unilaterally, that the disputes between the two countries would be resolved bilaterally and that the high fire line would become the control line.
Talk with Geographical news Early today, Asif said that the IWT had no room for anywhere to retire from it unilaterally. He said that all decisions on the agreement could be taken with the joint agreement of both parties.
“If this is the case and India has begun this [attitude] Then, the Simla agreement is between two parts and has no interference or sponsors [UN] Resolution approved at the time of the plebiscite of 1948.
“The holiness of the Simla agreement has been eliminated due to the actions of India,” added the Minister of Defense, saying that his conditions, as for India and Pakistan to solve problems bilaterally, were no longer applicable.
“The agreement as a whole after this episode of war now has no value.”
Later, a senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told him Dawn.com: “Until now a formal decision on the abrogation of any bilateral agreement with India has not been made.”
Questioned about the answer later in an interview in Geographical news Showing ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’ about whether such a decision had really been made or if it was his opinion, Asif said: “I replied to what India did with the IWT that the same will apply to the Simla agreement. The same will apply to him as the IWT.”
In addition, he said: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not related to my comment. I have given my comment to personal capacity … I think my opinion is correct and that should be our official position declared on this issue.”
In relation to Kashmir’s dispute, Simla’s agreement declared that “the basic problems and the causes of conflict that have attributed relations between the two countries during the last 25 years will be resolved by peaceful means.” He also forced both countries to discuss the modalities and arrangements for peace and lasting normalization.
However, Pakistan argues that India violated Simla’s agreement in 2019 when he unilaterally revoked article 370, altering the state of Jammu and Kashmir occupied. This allowed strangers to obtain domicile and buy property in assholed back to change the demography of the Muslim majority of the Valley, again called violation of the agreement.
