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Analysis
Pakistan is not doing any service to its people by using the language of terrorist leaders to question the Indian decision of keeping the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance , in response to terror attack in Pahalgam last month . In fact , Pakistan is deliberately shooting itself in foot , by espousing the cause of terrorists and using their semantics to warn India , which simply told it to roll back cross-border terrorism
Lt. Gen. Ahmed Rashid Chaudry, Director General of Inter Services Public Relations , while speaking at a public gathering in University of Pakistan , threatened India against stopping water to Pakistan of dire consequences. “ If India will stop our waters, we will choke your breath.”
The Indo-Pak watchers have noticed striking similarities in Gen. Chaudry’s warning and that of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba founder and chief Hafiz Saeed , who declared the similar warning to India , after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the waters flowing in rivers flowing to Pakistan under IWT will be utilized for irrigating fields of Indian farmers and building dams for hydro-power in the country.
Pakistan army generals speaking the language of terrorists is not surprising , but what is surprising is the way they are harming interest of their public whose only source of life comes from the waters in rivers flowing from India into their country under the Indus Waters pact.
Hafiz Saeed, in 2016, had warned India: “ If you stop our water, we will choke your breath.”
The Pakistani army ,and its political leadership- though largely inconsequential in the country where army holds all the keys of domestic and foreign policies , have not read or listened to the Indian words carefully.
On April 23rd , a day after the cold-blooded mass murder in Baisaran, Pahalgam , in which 26 were killed , India decided to keep the Waters Treaty in abeyance . Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri , while briefing the media about the decisions taken by the Cabinet Committee on Security ( CCS) against the backdrop of the April 22nd terror attack, stated: “ The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 will be held in abeyance with immediate effect , until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support to cross-border terrorism.”
The context and perspective of this 26-word sentence was very clear that Pakistan will have to dismantle all its terror infrastructure , networks, training camps , and hand over all the terrorists operating from its soil to India.
First , Pakistan started by saying that the stoppage of water will be considered as an” act of war,” and now it is threatening to choke breath of 1.40 billion people . So, Pakistan is conveying that it will defend terrorists and their brutal ways in India and if there is any threat to them then they will punish India for that.
The whole thing flies into face of Pakistan,. It had accused India of being unfair by taking anti-Pakistan measures without heeding its suggestion for a “ neutral and transparent probe “ into the Pahalgam incident. It also doubled down on its claim of innocence in the acts of terror on Indian soil. If Pakistan is not a land of terrorists , then it needs to explain that why UN designated terrorists are living and enjoying luxurious lives in Pakistan.
ISPR chief’s bombastic remarks and threatening tone , drawn word by word from the UN designated terrorists, exhibits that who teaches and learns from each other in Pakistan . The Army and terrorists learn their language of terrorism from the same school. Both are inseparable.
