2 Hidden Reasons Why Pakistan Is Boiling Over India’s Suspension Of Indus Waters Treaty

A key impact of the IWT suspension is that India will not have to intimate Pakistan while carrying out any work on the three rivers. The second is pyschological, say govt sources.

Pakistan’s anger has been boiling over India’s stopping of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in retaliation for the Pahalgam attack.

While Jal Shakti Minister CR Paatil said on Friday that India will ensure that not even a drop of water from the Indus river goes to Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that the country was the true custodian of the Indus civilisation and warned India that “either their water will flow in the Sindh or else Indians’ blood will flow through it".

Pakistan Minister Hanif Abbasi escalated tensions by openly threatening India with nuclear retaliation, warning that Islamabad’s stockpile — Ghori, Shaheen, and Ghaznavi missiles along with 130 nuclear warheads — has been kept “only for India." Abbasi further warned that if India stops the water supply to Pakistan by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, it should prepare for a war, as Islamabad is ready to strike if provoked.