India on Wednesday, one -sided an important water sharing agreement with Pakistan suspended after accusing his neighbor of a deadly violent on a scenic tourist town in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir State. Islamabad, however, warned that any Indian attempt to stop or divert water in the rivers that IWT controls will be considered an “act of war” and responded to all conventional and non-conventional means.

IWT – which was broken by the World Bank in September 1960 – determined the rights and obligations in Pakistan and India regarding the use of waters in the Indus River System. The agreement has been the test of times and has long been hailed as a rare example of cooperation between the two Arches.

In a very provocative step, India’s Cabinet Committee for security on Wednesday decided to hold the historic treaty “in monkeyian” after the killing of 26 people, including tourists, in Pahaldam, Anantnag District in IIOJK, on ​​April 22. The move was the most significant among a number of measures that CCS announced to the Ratchet pressed on Pakistan.

The CCS decision could have serious consequences for Pakistan – an agricultural economy – where agriculture is almost 90% depending on the Indus drainage system. The relocation is calculated as Delhi believes that water -knobness would affect the crop yield, which in turn would create food security and trigger social turmoil in Pakistan.

In the short term, India could stop sharing important data on water in the rivers flowing into Pakistan, which could have a devastating influence, especially in the coming Monsun season, when fear of flood increases the manifold.

However, Islamabad rejected the Indian step and said that none of the pages could suspend or revoke the World Bank’s brokered treaty. Pakistan’s most important security forum said on Thursday that water is an important national interest, a lifeline for its 240 million people, and its availability will be protected at all costs.

“Any attempt to stop or divert the flow of water that belongs to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty, and the usurpation of the rights to Lower Riparian will be considered an act of war and responded with full strength across the complete spectrum of national power,” read a statement that was issued after the National Security Committee (NSC) -meeting.

Analysts believe that India can use the Suspension of the Treaty as an excuse to accelerate the development of hydropower and storage projects along the western rivers, including Pakal Dul, Ratle, Ciru and Sawalkot, which has not been able to build due to objections to its design from Pakistan under IWT.

However, defense and security analysts say that if and when India tries to build any facility to stop or divert the water share in Pakistan, Islamabad will militarily take out this facility using its full fighting power. By explaining the NSC usage of the term “complete spectrum of national power” said a defense analyst: “It means Pakistan can go to any limit, including the use of nuclear weapons.”

Another analyst added that since NSC has categorically declared that water is “important national interest”, the country’s political and military leadership “will not even think in a minute and beat the place that brings water supply to Pakistan.”

Experts have called India’s decision to suspend the IWT as a political stunt and an eye washing designed to place the Indian public and emphasize that Delhi cannot unilaterally revoke or suspend the agreement. “India or Pakistan cannot suspend or revoke the Indus Waters Treaty one -sided, and any change in the treaty would require mutual consent,” the former Pakistan Commissioner of Indus Waters (PCIW) Jamaat Ali Shah told Express Pakinomist.

He said IWT is a permanent agreement and that India would therefore have to take Pakistan in confidence to suspend or revoke it. However, Indian officials say that if Pakistan is approaching the World Bank, the guarantee of IWT, Delhi could claim that “monkeyian” is a temporary suspension, not a breach and that cooperation can be resumed when Pakistan addresses India’s concerns.