India turns a tap. Prime Minister: Water will not be delivered outside the country

India will keep water for internal use, which until now has been supplied outside the country – said Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India on Tuesday. In April, India suspended a contract for the distribution of water with Pakistan, after a terrorist attack in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed.

“Earlier, water from India was given to other (states). Now the water from India will flow for the good of the country; we will stop it for India's interests and will be used by us,” Modi said, speaking at the summit of India 2047 in the capital of the country of Delhi. The event aims to attract investors in connection with the 100th anniversary of India in 2047.

As Reuters pointed out, the prime minister did not develop the topic during the speech.

After the terrorist attack, which occurred on April 22, 2025, the Indian authorities closed the land border with Pakistan and reduced the rank of diplomatic relations. Delhi also suspended the Treaty on the waters of the Indus River signed with Islamabad from 1960, negotiated by the World Bank. Under the Treaty, three rivers of the Indus river basin: Rawi, Bjas and Satledź fell in Indy, and Pakistan fell to Indiom, and Indus and Dźhelam and Czenab. Under this agreement, India provided water supply to 80 percent. Pakistani farms. This sector contributes to almost 25 percent. Pakistan GDP. Experts expressed concerns that India would “use access to water as a weapon.”

India accused Pakistan of responsibility for the terrorist attack, which they described as “the most deadly attack on civilians in the region since 2000”. Pakistan immediately rejected these accusations, and the premiere of the country of Shehbaz Sharif found them “unfounded”.

Prime Minister Modi promised to chase “terrorists” and their partners “to the end of the world”.

After the attack in Kashmir, India identified as Pakistanis two fighters suspected of committing a crime. Islamabad denied that he would play any role in the assassination and called for a neutral investigation. Since then, on the demarcation line between the two countries in the disputed region, Kashmir is constantly exchanging fire.

The UN Security Council appealed to both nuclear weapons with “maximum restraint”. China's authorities presented a similar position. Saudi Arabia announced that it is taking “actions to avoid escalation”, and Iran and Switzerland proposed mediation. Kashmir, inhabited mainly by Muslims, belongs partly to India and partly to Pakistan, but both countries are claiming to the whole region. An anti -infitic rebellion has been going on in Indian Kashmir since 1989, which has already cost the lives of tens of thousands of people. Pakistan accuses her of supporting India. (PAP)

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