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Pakistan has closed its airspace on India’s airlines, said that it would suspend a 1972 peace treaty with its larger neighbor and warned that every distraction of the common river waters would be considered “act of war”.
Islamabad’s movements against India on Thursday were a sharp escalation of the dispute between the two nuclear nations because of an attack in which 26 tourists were killed in the controversial northern region of Kashmir.
India already had Diplomatic relationships downgraded with Pakistan And suspended his participation in a decisive cross -border water contract for the attack. On Thursday, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swore and punish the supporters of the armed men “, who were responsible for an atrocities that shocked the Indians and shocked the fears of a conflict with Pakistan.
Pakistan has contested any participation in the attack in Pahalgam, a tourist destination in the Indian area of Jammu and KashmirAnd on Thursday, India’s accusations against terrorism were returned to Modi’s government.
The National Security Committee of the Islamic Republic condemned India suspension of the 1960 contract under which the two countries share water from the Indus flow system.
“Any attempt to stop or redirect the water flow from Pakistan according to the Indus water contract.
It said Pakistan would suspend all bilateral contracts with his neighbor, including a peace agreement from 1972, “to India from … terrorism in Pakistani (and) transnational murders”. The remarks were an obvious reference to the alleged participation of the Indian agents in the Killing of separatist Sikh activists in Canada and Pakistan.
The committee also said that Pakistan would hold the Sima Agreement, which has signed the relationship between the two countries since its war of 1971, “in Abeyance”. The provisions of the PACT included the establishment of the “control line”, in which they are exposed to Kashmir.
Michael Kugelman, a South Asia analyst based in Washington, said that the Indus water contract and the Simla Agreement had served as a “security networks” to ensure a baseline for cooperation and communication in times of high tension between Pakistan and India. “The relationships risk the area,” said Kugelman.
The police in Jammu and Kashmir said on Thursday that two of the three suspects in Pahalgam massacre were Pakistani nationals who identified as part of a militant group behind one of the worst mass murder of India in India.
In a “searched” published online, the police described the men as “Let Terrorists”, an indication of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba in Pakistan, which was responsible for the murder of 175 people in Mumbai in 2008.
Modi said on Thursday in the Indian state of Bihar and said deadliest For Indians in Kashmir since a suicide attack from 2019, in which 40 paramilitaries were killed.
“I say to the whole world, India will identify, follow and punish every terrorist and their supporters,” said Modi. “India’s spirit is never broken by terrorism. Pahalgam will not be unpunished.”
India has instructed the closure of its only border crossing with Pakistan, the expulsion of military consultants from Pakistani diplomatic missions in India, the withdrawal of his own advisors from Pakistan and a reduction in the number of diplomats in each country of 55.
The suspension of participation in the Indus water contract was an unprecedented measure that could be deeply harmful at the beginning of the sowing of a country that was involved in a deep economic crisis.
Ishaq, Pakistani Foreign Minister, told local television on Wednesday that Islamabad was not involved in Pahangam’s attack and that “no evidence” was presented to show something else. Pakistan would take revenge against Indian measures against the attack, said.
“There will be a tit-for-act response and no less IOTA did,” he said in an interview with Dunya News.
The diplomatic crisis threatens the fragile economic recovery in Pakistan after two years of stagflation and increasing power costs have shredded household finances and seriously affected industries.
The Indus water contract is of crucial importance for Pakistan, since it guarantees access to the three western rivers of the Indus basin -its main source of water for agriculture, power and daily life.
Farooq Tariq, a farmer and activist from Toba Tek Singh in the center of Punjab, said that any water supply disorder could have a “devastating influence on Pakistan’s agriculture”. “(Farmers in Sindh and Punjab) are in much more danger to lose water while there are already … water shortages,” he said.
