{"id":18126,"date":"2025-04-26T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=18126"},"modified":"2025-04-26T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:02:25","slug":"bilawal-warns-india-of-isolation-for-suspending-indus-waters-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=18126","title":{"rendered":"Bilawal warns India of ‘isolation’ for suspending Indus Waters Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWeaponising water during time when entire planet is threatened by climate change is not only irresponsible but immoral,\u201d says PPP chief<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari speaks during an interview in Muzaffarabad, on May 22, 2023. \u2014 AFP <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday warned that India\u2019s unilateral decisions, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty following the Pahalgam attack, could isolate it both domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven during times of war, such steps were not taken\u2026 what India is doing now is unprecedented and shows it is not interested in combatting terrorism but rather exploiting it for political gain,” the former foreign minister said while speaking on Geo News\u2019<\/em> programme \u2018Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’ on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warning follows the deadly gun attack in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), where 26 tourists were shot dead at a scenic location in the Pahalgam area. The victims included one Nepali national.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the attack, India took unilateral and frivolous measures against Pakistan, suspending a water-sharing treaty, announcing the closure of the main land border crossing with Pakistan, downgrading diplomatic ties, and withdrawing visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan, in response, ordered the expulsion of Indian diplomats and military advisers, cancelling visas for Indian nationals, with the exception of Sikh pilgrims \u2014 and closing the main border crossing from its side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations (UN) has urged Pakistan and India to show “maximum restraint”, saying that any issues between Pakistan and India should be resolved peacefully through meaningful mutual engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking during today’s programme, Bilawal noted that India lacks the authority to unilaterally suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, saying that the agreement is internationally recognised and also involves other signatories including the World Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWeaponising water during a time when the entire planet is threatened by climate change is not only irresponsible but immoral,\u201d Bilawal added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further said that if wars are to be fought over water, future generations would be trapped in a cycle of conflict. “No country will endorse actions aimed at undermining an internationally sanctified water-sharing agreement,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PPP chairman also said that time has proven that India is not interested in peace, but in systematically eroding the internationally recognised status of IIOJK. \u201cWhen Article 370 was revoked, it wasn\u2019t an act against terrorism \u2014 it was a crackdown on peaceful protesters and political leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bilawal said that India seeks to blur the lines between legitimate resistance and terrorism, avoiding its international legal obligations in Kashmir by continuously blaming Pakistan. \u201cThey think they succeeded once and can keep repeating it \u2014 but the world is now seeing through these tactics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that while the world unites in condemning acts of terror, no one is ready to support India’s unilateral move to politicise shared resources or break international agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the contentious canals project, Bilawal said that the federal government had taken a responsible decision, and any final approval would come through the Council of Common Interests (CCI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has been agreed that no new canal will be built without consensus. In a democracy, unilateral decisions don\u2019t work,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said certain elements are trying to stoke regional tensions, especially between Sindh and Punjab, for their own benefit. \u201cSuch negative forces will be responded to politically,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1305173-bilawal-warns-india-of-isolation-for-suspending-indus-waters-treaty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWeaponising water during time when entire planet is threatened by climate change is not only irresponsible but immoral,\u201d says PPP chief Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday warned that India\u2019s unilateral decisions, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty following the Pahalgam attack, could isolate it both domestically and internationally. \u201cEven during times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1764,16968,16969,208,132,2378,39,16966,16750,5808,13970,36,16967,60,2594],"class_list":["post-18126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-agriculture","tag-bilawal","tag-bilawal-warns-india-of-isolation-for-suspending-indus-waters-treaty","tag-climate-change","tag-economy","tag-hydropower","tag-india","tag-india-revoke-indus-water-treaty","tag-indus-water-treaty","tag-irrigation","tag-isolation","tag-pakistan","tag-weaponizing-water","tag-geopolitics","tag-indian-occupied-kashmir"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18128,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18126\/revisions\/18128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}