Once again, as if you were not listening the first 100 times it has been mentioned on these threads, the IWT was designed to PROTECT Pakistani riparian RIGHTS during both peacetime AND wartime, guided by the relevant UN resolution on the utility of fresh water by warring sovereign nation states. This agreement was partly, not completely, required PRECISELY BECAUSE of the disputed status of the sources of multiple tributaries of the River Indus.
Then get off this "muh war prevention treaty" as if it was some goodwill you gave us. The treaty rests on the fact that both parties agree to uphold it and resolve disputes peacefully. Signing a treaty for water sharing then stabbing in the back trying to usurp territories? The treaty would've never been signed if it wasn't for the Nehru government and its bhaichara mentality. But what's done is done.
Why was such a treaty needed? Because we know you people well.
Feel free to cite the events of April 1948 in Punjab province if you are still struggling to understand your people's mindset.
First and formemost this treaty is India's largessee. Get that into your head, we didn't have to sign a treaty at all, but we did, we paid over 150 million dollars on top of that so that you can have a new canal system when we stop eastern rivers. The treaty survived wars you started again it shouldn't have.
On top of that close to 1 billion was given to you by various governments (incl our 170 mil) and international agencies to build this new canal system and Mangla-Tarbela dams.
The total absolute control of the eastern rivers happened less than a decade ago btw.
Even here on these very threads, your kind of uncivil society are quite visibly jumping up and down with glee at the very concept of depriving civilian citizens, Muslim and Hindu alike, of clean water. Pakistanis have made NO such threats, insinuations, or inferences towards Indian civilians.
Can you blame them? After decades of deception, wars, terrorism you think we are all planning to be best friends? Always remember, absolutely no Indian ever wish anything good for Pakistan. We don't like you, you don't like us and every action Indian state takes is to undermine you at every turn possible. It shouldn't come as a surprise when you yourself consider India as your enemy. Enemies do what enemies do, there are no righteous enemies.
No IWT would ever be needed if those of your ilk knew how to behave like civilised human beings. Churchill was right.
Back at you, IWT would've been still there if you learnt to live as a civilized neighbour. But no, you want Kashmir, when you couldn't win it in a fair fight, you want to bleed India by thousand cuts. India is not even planning to cut water supply, but exploit your complicacy in not building enough reservoirs and canals. But that's today, the ball is in your court, do you want to dismantle old ways? You can have your treaty, remember the treaty is not dusted yet only in abeyance. Next major militant attack in Kashmir the treaty is done for good.
So much for "preventing war".
