Pakistan to suspend peace treaty with India as tensions grow over Kashmir killings

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Pakistan said from its air area to airlines in India, and said it will suspend the peace treaty in 1972 with its largest neighbor, and warned that any conversion to the common river water “is considered a” act of war. “

Islamabad’s moves against India on Thursday were a sharp escalation of the dispute between the two nuclear armed countries due to an attack that killed 26 tourists in the disputed northern region of Kashmir.

India has already reduced diplomatic relations with Pakistan and suspended its participation in a decisive border water treaty. On Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to “identify and track” supporters of the militants responsible for the atrocities that shocked the Indians and encouraged fears of the conflict with Pakistan.

Pakistan denied any involvement in the attack in Bahjam, a tourist destination in the Indian -controlled Jamo and Kashmir region, and on Thursday India’s accusations of supporting terrorism in the Modi government.

The Islamic National Security Committee of the Islamic Republic denounced the suspension of India to the 1960 Treaty, according to which the two countries participate in the water from the Sind River system.

“Any attempt to stop or convert the flow of water belonging to Pakistan, according to the Treaty [to] The committee said in a press statement after its meeting after its meeting with the full force across the full spectrum of the National Authority.

She said that Pakistan will suspend all bilateral treaties with its neighbor, including the 1972 peace agreement [and] Patriotic killings.

The committee also said that Pakistan will retain the “expression” of the Simla agreement, which has governed relations between the two countries since its signing after their war in 1971. The provisions of the agreement included the establishment of the “control line” they face in Kashmir.

Michael Kojman, a Washington -based South Asian analyst, said that the Indus Water and Simla Accord Treaty was “safety networks” to ensure a basic line of cooperation and communication in times of high tension between Pakistan and India. “The relationship risk entering an unknown area,” said Kogman.

Police in Jammu and Kashmir said on Thursday that two of the three suspects in the Bahasa massacre were Pakistani citizens, as he identified them as part of a militant group behind one of the worst mass killings in India.

In the notice of “Wanted” was published on the Internet, the police described the men as “inviting the terrorists”, referring to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-Eyyaba, which was responsible for killing 175 people in Mumbai in 2008.

Speaking in the Indian state of Bihar on Thursday, Modi said that his government would continue to “the ends of the Earth”, the people responsible for the attack that was more bloody on the Indians in Kashmir since a 2019 suicide bombing, which has killed 40 attention.

“I say to the entire world, India will determine, track and punish all terrorists and its supporters.” “India’s soul will not be broken.

India ordered the closure of its only border crossing with Pakistan, the expulsion of military advisers from Pakistani diplomatic missions in India, withdrawing its advisers from Pakistan, and reducing the number of diplomats in each country to 30 out of 55.

The suspension of his participation in the Indus Waters Treaty was an unprecedented measure that could be deeply harmful to agriculture in Pakistan at the beginning of the seed season from a country steeped in a deep economic crisis.

Isaac Dar, the Pakistani Foreign Minister, told Local TV on Wednesday that Islamabad was not involved in the Paalgam attack and that “there is no evidence” had been provided to show otherwise. Dar said that Pakistan would discuss any Indian action on the attack.

He said in an interview with Donia News: “There will be a response to the dream, and IOTA is not less than they did,” he said in an interview with Donia News.

The diplomatic crisis threatens the fragile economic recovery in Pakistan after two years of stagnation and increased energy costs that have been funded to the family’s financing and its industries severely affected.

The Indus Waters Treaty is vital to Pakistan because it guarantees access to the three Western rivers of the Indus basin – its main source of agriculture for agriculture, power and daily life.

Farouk Tariq, a farmer and activist from Tuba Tech Singh in the center of Punjab, said any water supply disorder can have a “devastating effect on Pakistan’s cultivation.” “[Farmers in Sindh and Punjab] At a risk of losing water while it is already being. . . Water scarcity.