India has announced that it will restrict the flow of water across worldwide borders.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated on Tuesday that” India’s liquid will now move for India’s profit, it will be conserved for India’s benefit, and it will be used for its development.”
Modi’s remarks come about two months after India suspended a 65-year-old waters sharing agreement with its neighbor, even though he did not specifically mention Pakistan.
Following a dangerous violent attack on tourists next month in Indian-administered Kashmir, the relations between India and Pakistan have drastically deteriorated. Pakistan is accused of supporting cross-border violence by India, a charge Islamabad vehemently refutes.
India claimed that Muslim firing on its part of the de facto border caused the death of three citizens.
About 80 % of Pakistan’s fields receive essential water supplies from India, which flows into many rivers into Pakistan. Previous warnings from Muslim rulers included the phrase” may be considered as an act of war” when attempted to stop the flow of water.
The Indus Waters Treaty ( IWT ) from 1960, which regulates the water sharing between six rivers in India and Pakistan, survived two conflicts between the nuclear rivals and was viewed as a case study of trans-boundary water management.
Following the attack, which resulted in the deaths of 26 residents, Modi suspended the agreement.
The PM did not provide specific instructions on how India intends to use the extra water, and experts claim that the nation needs to construct more reservoirs, reservoirs, and lakes to keep it, which may take time to construct.
The US called for quiet again as a result of the increase.
On Tuesday evening, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters that” we continue to press Pakistan and India to work toward a responsible decision that preserves long-term peace and regional stability in South Asia.”