India says it will never restore Indus water treaty with Pakistan (www.reuters.com)
from Stamau123@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Jun 20:20
https://lemmy.world/post/31781610

NEW DELHI, June 21 (Reuters) - India will never restore the Indus Waters Treaty with Islamabad, and the water flowing to Pakistan will be diverted for internal use, Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with Times of India on Saturday.

India put into “abeyance” its participation in the 1960 treaty, which governs the usage of the Indus river system, after 26 civilians in Indian Kashmir were killed in what Delhi described as an act of terror. The treaty had guaranteed water access for 80% of Pakistan’s farms through three rivers originating in India.

Pakistan has denied involvement in the incident, but the accord remains dormant despite a ceasefire agreed upon by the two nuclear-armed neighbours last month following their worst fighting in decades.

“No, it will never be restored,” Shah told the daily.

“We will take water that was flowing to Pakistan to Rajasthan by constructing a canal. Pakistan will be starved of water that it has been getting unjustifiably,” Shah said, referring to the northwestern Indian state.

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SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 21 Jun 20:46 next collapse

India must be amongst the top 3 world villains

Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world on 21 Jun 20:51 next collapse

Top 3? Top 10 for sure but theres some HEAVY competition for top 3

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works on 21 Jun 22:15 collapse

What I’m hearing is that we are overdue for an Evil World Leader Battle Royale.

Alistaire@sopuli.xyz on 22 Jun 09:12 next collapse

what are the other 2

Jumi@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 10:13 collapse

China and the US

Alistaire@sopuli.xyz on 22 Jun 11:36 collapse

china has only some tension over it’s borders, do better. There are far more problematic countries left

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 13:10 next collapse

Tibet and Xinjiang are a thing, not to mention how bad they bully in the South China Sea. They’re propping up the Russian war machine right now as well

Jumi@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 14:33 collapse

Tell me you have no idea of what’s going on without telling me you have no idea of what’s going on.

embed_me@programming.dev on 22 Jun 11:43 next collapse

What makes you think that?

jnod4@lemmy.ca on 22 Jun 14:47 collapse

With pakistan in top2?

Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world on 21 Jun 23:00 collapse

That guarantees nuclear war between the two.

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Jun 15:57 collapse

Yup. Another domino on the way to world war, this time with nukes