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Indus Waters Treaty: India is working on three plans to ensure that Pakistan does not get even a single drop of water, Jal Shakti Minister CR Paatil told CNN-News18.
The minister said that New Delhi has three plans– a long-term plan, a short-term plan and a midterm plan in place to ensure no water supply to the neighbouring country.
A meeting was held at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence on Friday to discuss the future course of action on the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 with Pakistan, which has been kept in abeyance, as a retaliatory move in aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.
According to government sources, several suggestions were deliberated between the union ministers in the meeting.
Sources further said that New Delhi is ready to tackle every challenge, including the legal ones, in the course of implementing its decision. “Even if Pakistan decides to approach the World Bank, India has readied its response and will counter effectively,” sources said.
The Long Term Plans
As per the government sources, several long-term plans were discussed in the meeting, including, de- silting of the dams, options on how to divert the river water, and building new dams.
The government further ensured that no inconvenience would be caused to the Indian citizens while implementing the decision, sources added.
India has announced downgrading diplomatic ties with Pakistan and suspended the Indus Waters Treaty in the aftermath of the Pahalgam carnage on Tuesday in which 26 tourists were shot dead in broad daylight by the Resistance Front terrorists, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The decision was taken during the meeting of the Cabinet Committee of Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India Officially Notifies Decision
Earlier on Thursday, New Delhi officially notified its decision citing Islamabad’s sustained cross-border terrorism targeting Jammu and Kashmir.
India’s Water Resources Secretary Debashree Mukherjee said in a letter addressed to her Pakistani counterpart, Syed Ali Murtaza, that sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting Jammu and Kashmir impedes India’s rights under the Indus Waters Treaty.
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“The obligation to honour a treaty in good faith is fundamental to a treaty. However, what we have seen instead is sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” the letter read.
Pakistan’s Reaction To India’s Decision
In response, Pakistan’s National Security Committee had said that any attempt by India to block or divert river water under the Indus Waters Treaty would be treated as an “Act of War”. Terming the 1960 agreement a lifeline for its 240 million citizens, Islamabad had claimed the treaty cannot be held in abeyance unilaterally and warned of retaliation “across the complete spectrum of National Power”.
What Is Indus Waters Treaty?
India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty in 1960, with the World Bank as an additional signatory. The pact sought to divide the water of the Indus river and its tributaries equitably between the two countries. Under the treaty, water from three eastern rivers—Beas, Ravi, and Sutlej—was allocated to India, and that from the three western rivers—Chenab, Indus, and Jhelum—to Pakistan.
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The treaty gives control over the waters of the three “Eastern Rivers”—the Beas, Ravi, and Sutlej, located in India with a mean annual flow of 41 billion m3 (33 million acre⋅ft)—to India, while control over the waters of the three “Western Rivers”—the Indus, Chenab, and Jhelum, located in India with a mean annual flow of 99 billion m³—to Pakistan.
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