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Indus Water Not Under Threat; India Free To Divert Its Water Anywhere: Pakistan

Pakistan has neither any concern nor any objection if India diverts its share of water from the three eastern rivers. Recently Indian Union Minister said that India will half its share of water flowing to Pakistan.

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The recent announcement made by India’s Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said: “Under the leadership of Hon’ble PM Sri Narendra Modi Ji, our government has decided to stop our share of water which used to flow to Pakistan. We will divert water from eastern rivers and supply it to our people in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.”

India’s announcement for choking water is in addition to other actions like withdrawal of the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status and slapping of a 200 percent duty on all imports from Pakistan due to Pulwama attacks.

In an interaction with Pakistani media, Secretary of Pakistan’s Ministry of Water Resources Khawaja Shumail said: “We have neither concern nor objection if India diverts water of eastern rivers and supplies it to its people or uses it for other purposes, as the IWT (Indus Waters Treaty) allows it do so.”

“But we will definitely express our concerns and raise objections strongly if they use or divert waters of western rivers (Chenab, Indus, Jhelum) on which our right to use prevails,” Shumali added.

Pakistan’s Commissioner for Indus Waters Syed Mehr Ali Shah emphasised saying, “Whether they diverted and used their unutilised share of eastern rivers’ waters in 1960, we had no problem. They want to do it now, we have no problem. And if they don’t want to use this, we have no issue.”

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