India took decisive action after the fatal Pahalgam terror incident by declaring that the Indus Waters Treaty will be suspended. Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), responded by using meaningless words in a speech at a public gathering.
Speaking at a public event in Sukkur on Friday, Zardari said that Pakistanis will unite and respond forcefully to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aggression on the Indus River, just as the PPP did not approve a contentious canal project without consensus, according to Geo News.
“By attending the rally, the courageous people of Sukkur have sent a clear message that we will not allow anyone to bargain over the Indus,” the PPP chairman said. The Indus Water Treaty is being unilaterally suspended by the Modi administration, but I want to stand beside the Indus River in Sukkur and make it very clear to India that the Indus River belongs to us and will stay that way, whether your blood or our water flows from it.”
Khwaja Asif, Pakistan’s defense minister, acknowledged a day earlier that his nation had been supporting and assisting terrorist organizations.
“But you do admit, you do admit, sir, that Pakistan has had a long history of backing and supporting and training and funding these terrorist organizations?” said Pakistan’s defense minister in a video clip that went viral as he was speaking with Yalda Hakim of Sky News.
“We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades… and the west, including Britain,” Khwaja Asif said. We suffered as a result of that error, which is why you are telling me this. Pakistan’s record would have been unquestionable if we had not entered the fight against the Soviet Union and then the conflict after 9/11.
In an interview with Sky News host Yalda Hakim, the Pakistani defense minister issued a warning that a “all-out war” with India may break out.
Asif’s remark exposes the long-standing harboring of these terrorist organizations in Pakistan.
The Central government announced a number of diplomatic measures in response to the 26-person terror attack in Pahalgam. These included closing the Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Attari, suspending the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES) for Pakistani nationals, giving them 40 hours to return to their country, and lowering the number of officers in the High Commissions on both sides.
Following the Pahalgam assault, India also terminated the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.
Additionally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised the people that the terrorists who carried out this atrocity and those who planned it will receive unimaginable retribution.
The Prime Minister said that the moment had come to destroy the last terrorist bases and that the 140 crore Indians’ will would now shatter the backbone of those who commit acts of terrorism.