In signs that the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty has infuriated Pakistan, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Prime Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari warned India that the country is the true manager of Indian civilization and “we will have our water or their blood,” India reported.
“Indus is ours and we will remain ours. Our water will either pass through it or their blood will flow,” Bhutto said at a public rally on Friday.
The treaty, signed after years of negotiations in September 1960, controls how the water in the six rivers of the Indian Basin is utilized and distributed between India and Pakistan. The suspension of the treaty will have astronomical significance for Pakistan in the future, as it will provide water to 80% of the farmland.
His gun, who trained guns at Bhutto Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said neither Pakistan nor the international community would bid to deflect his “warm” or Indus seas.
“He (Modi) says they are heirs to a civilization that was thousands of years ago, but that civilization is in Mohenjo Daro, Lalcana. We are that true custodian and we defend it,” Bhutto said.
In fact, the Indus Valley civilization spread across both modern Pakistan and most of western India.
Bhutto is the second Pakistani leader after his speech at a rally in Bihar earlier this week and after Defense Minister Kawaja Asif, who targeted Prime Minister Modi.
Amidst a harsh message to Pakistan, Prime Minister Modi vows to “identify, track and punish” all terrorists and their supporters, “pursuing them all the way to the edge of the earth.”
Bhutto, who served as Pakistan’s foreign minister, said that Pakistan had already condemned the terrorist attacks that killed 26 tourists, but India had criticised it for hiding its government’s failures.
“India is illegally abolishing the treaty that recognized Indus as belonging to Pakistan,” he further said.
MNA/