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Pakistan will not get water from rivers which India has control over, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed on May 22, as tensions between the two nuclear powers began to rise again.
The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty was one of the measures India took against Pakistan after the April 22 attack on Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir. New Delhi blamed Islamabad for the attack.
That was the first time India had suspended the treaty, which was brokered by the World Bank in 1960. The measure was not even taken during full-blown wars between the two countries. The treaty grants Pakistan exclusive use of three western rivers, Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab. It also allows India to utilize the eastern rivers Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi.
The war distribution treaty is considered essential for Pakistan’s agricultural sector, hydropower, and drinking water supply.
“Pakistan will have to pay a heavy price for every terrorist attack … Pakistan’s army will pay it, Pakistan’s economy will pay it,” Modi said at a public event in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, which borders Pakistan.
The attack on Pahalgam, which claimed the lives of 26 people, marked the beginning of a serious crisis between India and Pakistan.
The situation escalated on May 7 following deadly Indian retaliatory strikes against Pakistan. The two counties exchanged strikes across the Line of Control, the de-facto borders in the disputed region of Kashmir, as well as over the internationally-recognized border for the next three days. More than 70 people were killed on both sides by the time a ceasefire was declared on May 10.
Tension began to rise again on May 21, when Islamabad accused New Delhi or being behind a suicide bombing that targeted a school bus in the southwestern province of Balochista, killing at least five people. The Pakistani military vowed to hunt down the perpetrators.
All in all, the crisis between India and Pakistan appears to be still far from being over. Both sides apparently lost trust in each other. A new round of fighting may be near.
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pakistan should have targeted those dams with a couple dozen nukes last month.
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