India does it again

For harming Pakistan one way or the other, India has been staging false flag operations every now and then and blaming Pakistan straightaway without undertaking any probe, investigation or inquiry whatsoever. In April last year, India had staged yet another false flag operation in Pahalgam in occupied Jammu and Kashmir wherein more than two dozen tourists were mercilessly massacred quite obviously by the occupying Indian security forces and Pakistan was forthwith accused for committing this without any inquiry or probe being undertaken. The situation was further aggravated as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) which was brokered by the World Bank after prolonged negotiations and signed by India and Pakistan in September 1960 in Karachi. Forthwith, Pakistan had rejected this unilateral suspension of the IWT, raised the issue at all relevant international forums , also taking the matter for adjudication by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague besides agitating the matter at the regional and international levels in bilateral deliberations The PCA while upholding its earlier award wherein it had supported the continued validity of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) ruled few days back that India cannot unilaterally suspend the agreement, quite obviously reaffirmed Pakistan just stand when by saying that the Treaty remained in force ,rejected arguments advanced by India that either party may withdraw or suspend it without mutual consent , the legal framework governing the sharing of the Indus river system continued to be binding on India and Pakistan. The PCA ruling as such related to long-running disputes between the two countries over hydroelectric developments on the Western rivers of the Indus system. It was worth mentioning here that Pakistan has been quite emphatically and repeatedly raising its serious concerns that Indian run-of-river hydroelectric projects could reduce downstream flows resul