Islamabad:
Chief of Army Staff (Coas) Field Marshal Asim Munir has confirmed Pakistan’s firm attitude towards regional sovereignty and says Pakistan will never accept India’s hegemony.
This repetition of determination came days after Pakistan inflicted a drubbing on India in a military confrontation between the two countries triggered by New Delhi’s reckless and provocative missile attacks on civilian infrastructures inside Pakistan.
When he spoke during a particularly far -reaching session with Deputy Chancellor, Principals and Senior Faculties at various universities, Field Marshal Munir emphasized the crucial role as teachers in designing the country’s future generations.
However, the focus remained on his extensive address Pakistan’s unwavering position on Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and wider regional concerns, especially with India.
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“Pakistan will never accept Indian hegemony,” the army chief said, drawing a fixed line on questions ranging from wandering rights to Kashmir. “Water is Pakistan’s red line and we do not allow any compromise on this basic right to 240 million Pakistanis,” he added.
India has announced the “Holding in Abeyance” Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), an agreement broken by the World Bank between Islamabad and New Delhi in 1960 to share the water available in the river and its side elves.
Under the agreement, Pakistan was entitled to three rivers, namely Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, while India was entitled to Ravi, Beas and Sutlej Rivers.
Pakistan, which is highly dependent on waters from three rivers assigned to it under IWT, has declared that any step to stop or divert its share of water will be considered “a war of war” and that it will use the full spectrum of national power to protect its water share.
