‘Bharat ka paani, Bharat ke haq me bahega': PM Modi's swipe at Pakistan after suspending Indus Waters Treaty
India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, a decades-old agreement with Pakistan governing the shared use of key rivers. India suspended the water-sharing pact that ensures supply to 80 per cent of Pakistani farms after it identified two of the three assailants in an attack that killed 26 people in Kashmir as Pakistanis.
PM Modi was speaking at an ABP News event.
"For decades, the water of our rivers has been a subject of tension and conflict, but our government, in collaboration with the state governments, has launched a massive campaign to link the rivers. The Ken-Betwa Link Project and the Parvati-Kalisindh Chambal Link Project will benefit millions of farmers," PM Modi added.
All gates of the Baglihar Dam, a key hydroelectric power project on the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, remain closed, even as a limited volume of water continues to flow downstream.
The Baglihar Dam, a key hydroelectric power project on the Chenab River, has been at the centre of past disputes between India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty framework.
Pakistan alleged that India has almost entirely stopped the flow of water across the border through the Chenab river as fears of a clash between the two neighbours mount following the terror attack in Pahalgam.
Since Sunday morning, the water flow has been throttled by almost 90 per cent of the usual volume that passes to Pakistan, according to Muhammad Khalid Idrees Rana, spokesman for Pakistan's Indus River System Authority. The nation had anticipated water supplies to farms would be short by a fifth for the next two months, even before this curtailment, he said.
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