Pakistan is preparing international legal action on the industrial water suspension in India in India, said a government minister ReutersAs tensions intensify between the neighbors following an attack against tourists from India illegally occupying the Jammu and the cashmere (iiojk).
Aqeel Malik, the Minister of State for Law and Justice, said Reuters That Islamabad worked on plans for at least three different legal options, in particular the questioning of the question at the World Bank – the Facilitator of the Treaty.
He also planned to take measures at the permanent court of arbitration or at the International Court of Justice of The Hague where it could alleviate that India violated the 1969 Vienna Convention on Treaty law, he said.
“Consultations in legal strategy are almost completed,” said Malik, adding the decision on the cases to be continued would be “soon” and would probably understand the pursuit of more than an avenue.
India has suspended the Indus Water Treaty Mediated by the World Bank of 1960 last week after the attack on IIOJK, saying that it would last until “Pakistan in a credible and irrevocably support for cross -border terrorism”.
Islamabad denies any involvement in the attack in which 26 people were killed.
India states that two of the three attackers he identified came from Pakistan. Islamabad said that “any attempt to stop or divert the flow of water from Pakistan … will be considered an act of war”.
Pakistan has also suspended all trade with India and closed its airspace in Indian Airlines.
Malik added that a fourth diplomatic option that Islamabad was considering was to raise the question to the United Nations Security Council. “All the options are on the table and we are looking for all the appropriate and competent forums to approach,” he said.
“The treaty cannot be suspended unilaterally and cannot be held unanswered, there is no (such) provision in the treaty,” said Malik.
Kushvinder Vohra, a recently retired leader from the Central Water Commission of India said: “There are very limited options (for Pakistan) … I can say that there are solid reasons for us to defend our action (from India).”
Government representatives and experts on both sides say that India cannot immediately stop water flows, as the treaty did not only build it from hydroelectric power plants without storage or significant dam on the three rivers allocated to Pakistan.
