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| J&K: “Blood and water can't flow together” | | Indus Water Treaty | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 27: PM Narendra Modi on September 25 chaired an important meeting. The meeting was on the 1960 Indus Water Treaty under which Pakistan gets over 80 per cent of the waters from the Chenab, Jhelum and Sindhu Rivers and India doesn't even 20 per cent. The meeting took place at a time when the relations between India and Pakistan are at the lowest ebb and the people in Jammu and Kashmir are anticipating a war between the two nations; when there is consensus in the country that India must take Pakistan head on by taking certain punitive measures against the rogue nation.
During the meeting, the Prime Minister discussed the pluses and minuses of the Treaty which was brokered by the World Bank in 1960. Though no decision was on taken in the meeting, PM Narendra Modi did say that "blood and water can't flow together". It was also reported that India would not give more water to Pakistan than it is required to be given as per the Treaty. In other words, the PM sent a clear signal that India could take a tough stand on the Treaty in case it continued to export terror to India and bloody and convulse the Indian political scene. Delhi gave the nation to understand that it will not forget the Uri attack and the martyrdom of 18 soldiers and that those perpetrated the attack will be punished-an understanding that the wounded Indian nation is not willing to appreciate. It wants action and action at the earliest. PM Modi has realized the nation is seething with anger and it would not forgive his government in case it continued to dither like the Congress government dithered during 2004-2014.
The Treaty is very generous towards Pakistan and harsh towards India as India can't construct dams and use the Indus water to the extent it is needed.
The then PM Nehru had agreed to sign the Treaty as a goodwill gesture towards Pakistan hoping the Pakistan would behave and not create any trouble for India - a hope that remained a hope since then.
Pakistan has been fomenting anti-India troubles at regular intervals in Kashmir and has fought three wars with India in 1965, 1971 and 1999 and also carrying on since 1987 proxy war, which has hit India very hard, as thousands of our jawans have lost their precious lives defending the borders and maintaining the unity and integrity of the country.
Paradoxically, while the nation is in a revenge mode and the PM Modi has been hinting at some action against Pakistan, including his statement that blood and water can't flow together, Pakistan has found in India many a supporter.
The Congress, the CPI, the CPI-M, the NCP and the JDU have all joined hands against the Modi government and warned that it would be dangerous to revoke the Indus Water Treaty.
On the other hand, Pakistan has approached China, Turkey and other countries to get India isolated and also threatened that there would be a full-scale war between India and Pakistan in case India revoked the Indus Water Treaty.
Things are not normal. Anything can happen anytime. |
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