Indian Leaders Reject Pakistan’s Indus Waters Treaty Threat, Warn Against ‘Misadventure’
NEW DELHI — Indian political leaders sharply rejected Pakistan’s latest warning over the Indus Waters Treaty on Friday, with lawmakers from both the ruling party and the opposition backing New Delhi’s decision to keep the agreement in abeyance.
The comments followed remarks by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who described water as a national “red line” and said Islamabad would not compromise on the issue.
India has said the treaty will remain suspended until Pakistan ends cross-border terrorism.
Union Minister Giriraj Singh dismissed Islamabad’s warning and said India would continue to act according to its own national interests.
“India works strictly in its own national interest. Whatever power there may be in the world…what stature does Pakistan even have? We work in our own interest and we defend our interests resolutely,” Singh said.
BJP National Spokesperson R.P. Singh issued a stronger warning, invoking last year’s Operation Sindoor.
“Shehbaz Sharif may have forgotten the state that Pakistan was reduced to during Operation Sindoor last year, the way their (terror) infrastructures and airports were destroyed. If they attempt any misadventure, Pakistan will get removed from the world map forever,” he said.
Congress MP Tariq Anwar also defended India’s position, saying continued terrorism linked to Pakistan had made normal relations increasingly difficult.
“There is a reason why India has kept the IWT in abeyance. The way terrorist activities are being conducted on part of Pakistan and given the recent attacks in Kashmir which claimed the lives of innocents, it is very difficult for India to maintain relations with Pakistan,” Anwar said.
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh said India should not be intimidated by Pakistan’s rhetoric and pointed to the Indian military’s actions during Operation Sindoor.
“Recently in ‘Operation Sindoor’, you must have seen how our Indian Armed Forces showed them every kind of line — red, yellow, blue,” he said.
Singh added that the country was capable of responding forcefully to any Pakistani action and said political differences should not undermine support for India’s armed forces.
“India possesses the capability to give a befitting reply to everything they do with a thousand times greater force. On this matter, the entire nation stands firmly with the Government of India and with the Indian Armed Forces,” he said.
The dispute comes amid continued tension over the future of the Indus Waters Treaty, a water-sharing agreement signed by India and Pakistan in 1960.
India’s Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Kwatra, recently said the agreement had originally been reached in a spirit of goodwill but argued that decades of Pakistani conduct had undermined that foundation.
Kwatra said keeping the treaty in abeyance “merely acknowledges what Pakistan’s conduct had already destroyed.” (Source: IANS)
