Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned that if India tried such an act, “you can be once more taught such a lesson that you can be left holding your ears.” File | Photo Credit: Reuters
A day after the Pahalgam terror assault on April 22, India took a sequence of punitive measures in opposition to Pakistan that included placing the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 in “abeyance”.
Pakistan has repeatedly warned that any interference to cease the water could be handled as an act of warfare.
“I wish to inform the enemy as we speak that in the event you threaten to carry our water, then maintain this in thoughts that you just can’t snatch even one drop of Pakistan,” Prime Minister Sharif stated whereas addressing a ceremony in Islamabad.
He warned that if India tried such an act, “you can be once more taught such a lesson that you can be left holding your ears.”
A day earlier, former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari termed the IWT’s suspension an assault on the Indus Valley Civilisation and stated the nation wouldn’t again down if New Delhi pressured it into warfare.
In an deal with to the Pakistani diaspora in Tampa, Florida, Army Chief Asim Munir reportedly stated Islamabad would destroy any dam if it lower off water circulation to Pakistan.
“We will await India to construct a dam, and once they accomplish that, we are going to destroy it,” he was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper. “The Indus River shouldn’t be the Indians’ household property. We haven’t any scarcity of assets to undo the Indian designs to cease the river.”
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, focusing on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam assault that killed 26 civilians.
India and Pakistan reached an understanding on May 10 to finish the battle after 4 days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes.
Published – August 13, 2025 09:12 am IST
