‘Blood and water can’t flow together’: PM Narendra Modi gets tough on Indus treaty

NEW DELHI: Taking the offensive right into the heart of Pakistan, India decided on Monday to suspend the meeting of the Indus Water Commission and explore ways to use its share of water of rivers flowing into Pakistan, besides hinting that it could revive construction of the Tulbul project in Jammu & Kashmir.

"Blood and water cannot flow simultaneously," Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a meeting where the decisions designed to make Pakistan pay for the terrorist attack on the Uri Army camp were taken, extending the retaliation against the strike beyond efforts to isolate Pakistan diplomatically+ .

In fact, sources said, India could even consider walking out of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) if Pakistan does not rein in terrorists, adding that the water-sharing pact is not sacrosanct.

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PM Modi keen to hit back after Uri attack, seeks multipronged strategy to choke Pakistan

Going by the several rounds of meetings that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding with designated group of officers — civil, intelligence and military — it appears as though he is working on a multipronged strategic option to hurt Pakistan. A day after chairing a meeting to review the Indus Waters Treaty, it was announced that he will be holding a meeting on 29 September to review the 'Most Favoured Nation' (MFN) status given to Pakistan.

It indicates that he is not looking at a knee jerk military response but is weighing all possible options, assessing his own capabilities, weighing them carefully so that the cost of escalation on the Indian side can be minimised, yet the action is effective.



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Indus Waters Treaty: Five key facts

The Modi govt is under tremendous pressure to take concrete actions against Pakistan to rein in terrorism emanating from its soil against India in the aftermath of the gruesome killing of 18 soldiers in the Uri terror attack on 18 September.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting on Monday with senior government officials to review the Indus Waters Treaty has further raised the possibility that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government may seek to alter or scrap the provisions of the 1960 treaty.

The Modi government is under tremendous public pressure to take concrete actions against Pakistan to rein in terrorism emanating from its soil against India in the aftermath of the gruesome killing of 18 soldiers in the Uri terror attack on 18 September.

But the key question is: Can India take unilateral actions altering the provisions of the treaty? There are no straightforward answers to this question between two hostile nuclear powers.

To put it in perspective, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah wrote in his Tweet last Friday that the 1960 World Bank-mediated Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan has survived three wars and numerous lows in India-Pakistan relations.


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