Pakistan will not get a drop of water, says Union minister

The Union government on Friday said that it has developed a strategy to ensure that “not a single drop of water” flows into Pakistan after suspending the Indus Waters Treaty amid diplomatic tensions over the Pahalgam terror attack, Deccan Herald reported.

On Wednesday, India said it was suspending the 1960 treaty with immediate effect until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably” stops its support for cross-border terrorism. The decision came a day after the terror attack in Pahalgam.

CR Patil, the Union ministry for water resources, said that a roadmap was prepared in a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday.

“Three options were discussed in the meeting,” Patil told reporters. “The government is working on short-term, medium-term and long-term measures so that not even a drop of water goes to Pakistan.”

Patil added that immediate measures such as desilting of rivers will be undertaken to stop and divert the flow of water. “We will ensure that not even a drop of water from the Indus River goes to Pakistan,” Patil added on social media.

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India and Pakistan signed the treaty in 1960 with the World Bank as an additional signatory, to divide the water of the Indus river and its tributaries equitably between the two countries.

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