Islamabad:
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, head of a parliamentary delegation who is touring the capitals of the world to gather support for Pakistan after a recent confrontation with India, warned that Pakistan can take more aggressive measures if India builds new channels or dams in the three rivers within their territory.
“The threat of India to close the water supply to 240 million people in Pakistan is a violation of the UN letter. If they act accordingly, Pakistan has been very clear: we would consider that an act of war,” he said in an interview with Sky News during his visit to the United Kingdom on Monday.
He was referring to the unilateral suspension of India of the Indo Water Treaty (IWTT) after the militant attack of April 22 in the Pahalgam area of the illegally occupied Indians Jammu and Cashmira (Iiojk).
The attack led the two nuclear armed countries to the edge of war with hostile neighbors who launched missiles, drones and air attacks within the territories of others during a four -day conflict suddenly resolved a high fire announced by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Condemned weapon from water by the eastern neighbor, Bilawal said: “We cannot allow this precedent to be established; we cannot arm water if they build new channels or a new dam in the three rivers in the domain of Pakistan, we would have to take a more aggressive step.”
Bilawal, also the president of the PPP, said that Pakistan had been at war with India before and also had many exchanges, but had never taken such drastic step.
“At this time, the threshold of the conflict between India and Pakistan is the lowest that has been in our history. We have achieved a high fire, but we have not achieved peace.”
He said that throughout the recent climb, Pakistan had acted in moderation and responsibility, and even today, “Pakistan’s message is that we want peace, peace through dialogue and diplomacy. We believe that there is no military solution for any of the problems between India and Pakistan.”
He said that unfortunately, India refused to speak and that the delegation went from capital to capital, committing to the international community, seeking her help in this search for peace.
“Pakistan believes that there must be dialogue and diplomacy where we discuss all the issues (terrorism, puppy or water) and begin to advance.”
The former Foreign Minister said that there is no legal term to suspend or celebrate the Treaty of the Indo Water (IWT) in suspense as in addition to Pakistan and India, it also includes international institutions as part that requires consensus for any change.
To a question, he said that the water had not stopped flowing to Pakistan, since India lacked capacity at this time to stop it completely, but have delayed release.
For a question, Bilawal told the interviewer that Pakistan had taken effective measures against terrorist groups under the framework of the Financial Action Task Group (FATF) and was removed from the Gray Gray list, which evidenced the support of the international community of Pakistan’s actions against such groups.
He said that the terrorist attack that took place on April 22 in India had nothing to do with Pakistan, carried out by an indigenous group within India.
Reiterating Pakistan’s position that the president of the United States, Trump deserved credit for the high Fire of Pakistan-India, said throughout this episode that India had participated in erroneous information and misinformation.
“They have not been honest with their own audience, the media or their allies, and this is an additional thing about which they are not honest, they went to war on the basis of a lie, and then they could not win that war.
“They lied about the airplanes we knocked down, they lied about the details of this terrorist attack,” he said.
Bilawal said India failed to name a single terrorist involved in this attack, revealed her identity or any information about the border crossing.
Emphasizing the “unique role” of the United Kingdom throughout the situation, he said that the country should encourage India to participate in the dialogue with Pakistan.
“India said not to an impartial investigation when we ask for one in the terrorist attack. They say not to mediation, either from the United Kingdom or the United States, and say not to dialogue with Pakistan.
“If they are trapped in the status quo, we have lowered the threshold of conflict between India and Pakistan to the point that any terrorist attack means war.”
Calling Pakistan’s commitments with the United Kingdom “really positive,” he said that the United Kingdom government was anxious to encourage both parties to participate in the dialogue to address all problems. “It is only the Indians who are being difficult about this,” he said.
Meanwhile, the High Level Pakistani parliamentary delegation, directed by Bilawal, committed to eminent members of the British Expert Group, the Academy and the Community of Policy Formulation in the prestigious Chatham House, one of the main tanks of experts in the United Kingdom focused on foreign policy and security problems.
The closed door discussion was held under the “rules of the Chatham house”, which is used throughout the world to encourage inclusive and open dialogue at meetings.
Bilawal and other members of the delegation conveyed Pakistan’s perspective on the recent climbing in southern Asia, while expressing a serious concern for military aggression not caused from India that resulted in casual civilians and raised a significant threat to regional stability.
They subtracted that India’s actions constituted a clear violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, international law and the United Nations Charter.
The Pakistan delegation said that the armed forces of Pakistan, with the full support of the people of Pakistan, had given an appropriate response to India, demonstrating Pakistan’s resolution to defend his sovereignty and frustrating the ambitions of India to establish any new call “normal” in the region.
The delegation pointed out that the pending resolution of the JAMMU and Kashmir dispute remains the main obstacle to peace and lasting stability in the region.
They urged the international community to support significant dialogue and guarantee respect for international commitments and human rights.
