Islamabad:
On Friday, the senators dismissed a broad to India for its attempts to unilaterally suspend the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), warning that such a provocation would cross a red line and could trigger legal, diplomatic and even military reprisals under international law.
Speaking during a session of the Senate chaired by Senator Irfan Siddiqui in the Chamber of Parliament, the parliamentary chief of the PTI, Barister Ali Zafar, said that India had no legal reason to express the old decades.
He warned that falsification of the flow of water was equivalent to a declaration of war.
The legal expert has cited international law, including article 51 of the United Nations Charter and Articles 54 and 49 of the Geneva Convention, affirming that the provisions leave no room for maneuver.
Pakistan reserves the right to respond with full force on all fronts if India dares to stop even a single drop, he added.
He continued by warning that if India violated the treaty, Pakistan had the legal right to destroy the Indian dams with missiles or to deactivate their functionality by military force.
“International law says that if India even blocks a single drop of water, Pakistan can hit their dams with missiles.”
“Article 12, paragraph 4, of the industrial water Treaty clearly indicates that no unilateral modification can be made. If modifications are necessary, the two countries must negotiate and conclude a new agreement,” added Zafar.
He also recalled the past violations of India, including the construction of the Kishanganga dam, where Pakistan approached the international court too late. “We are a lower resident state. International law says that the lower riparian states have an inalienable right to water. The refusal of the law can be countered by any measure necessary to preserve the treaty.”
Zafar stressed that Pakistan had built one of the world’s largest channel systems under TFI and that India’s attempt to disturb it shows its lack of reliability and contempt for international commitments.
“The time is ripe to expose the actions of India to the world,” said the head of the PTI.
“When we have already asked for international arbitration, India has used declarations of our own ministers against us. Now, this alleges terrorism as a pretext to suspend the treaty.”
“If we do not manage to resolve this water crisis, people are starving. It is greater than politics,” said the PTI chief.
PTI senator, Dr. Humayun Mohmand, compared India’s actions to a hostile neighbor cutting water. “If someone blocks water from your adjacent house, you persuade them to open it, either you open it yourself,” he said.
“India only understands the language of force.”
He rejected the declarations of the Minister of Finance of Pakistan by minimizing the immediate impact of the actions of India. “If Modi was cared for international standards, he wouldn’t do that,” he said. “The striking understands only a kalashnikov rushed towards their temple.”
Senator Jui-F Kamran Murtaza has also criticized the long-standing behavior of India. “India has always created water-related problems for us,” he said.
He underlined the need for a senatorial committee including members of all parties to carefully examine the issue and advise the government accordingly.
