In a new warning to India, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday declared that "not a single drop" of water, which legitimately belongs to his country, will be allowed to be taken by the "enemy."
India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 on April 23 as one of many punitive measures against Pakistan, a day after a Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.
Islamabad has warned that any action to stop the flow of water would be considered an act of war.
"I want to tell the enemy today that if you threaten to hold our water, then keep this in mind that you cannot snatch even one drop of Pakistan,” news agency PTI quoted Shehbaz Sharif as saying at a ceremony in Islamabad.
The Pakistani prime minister also warned that if India attempted such an act, “you will be again taught such a lesson that you will be left holding your ears.”
India has so far has not made an official response to Shehbaz Sharif's latest warning.
Sharif's comments come after former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari echoed a similar warning himself, referring to the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty as an attack on the Indus Valley Civilisation. Bhutto-Zardari said Pakistan would "not be afraid" to respond if India pushed it to war.
Actor Mithun Chakraborty blasted Bhutto-Zardari for his remarks on the other hand.
On Tuesday, Mithun Chakraborty, an actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party leader, responded to a provocation by Pakistan People's Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. India can retaliate by unleashing a barrage of BrahMos missiles.
Chakraborty added, directly on a patriotic note, that a dam will be made and 1.4 billion Indians will excrete there before flooding that dam to create a tsunami for its neighbour.
However, Chakraborty clarified that his ire towards the Pakistani establishment and not the ordinary Pakistani citizens he described as peace-loving and anti-war.
On the other hand, Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir, while speaking to members of the Pakistani diaspora in Tampa, Florida, reportedly warned that if India tried to cut off water to Pakistan, Islamabad would destroy any dam.
"We will wait for India to build a dam, and when they do so, we will destroy it,” Asim Munir was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
“The Indus River is not the Indians’ family property. We have no shortage of resources to undo the Indian designs to stop the river," he added.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday condemned the nuclear threat against India made by Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir and added it "undercut" the long-held concerns for the credibility of Pakistan's nuclear command and control. The MEA claimed that the Islamabad's military establishment was "hand-in-glove" with terrorist groups and added that New Delhi would not be held hostage to any form of nuclear blackmail.
The MEA called Pakistan's nuclear posturing its "stock-in-trade" and affirmed India's intent to "continue taking every step to protect India's national security."
In what seemed to be an oblique reference to the US, the MEA expressed regret that such a statement was made from the land of a "friendly third country."
On May 7, India launched Operation Sindoor targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in response to an attack on April 22 that killed 26 civilians in Pahalgam.
After four days of massive cross-border exchanges of drones and missiles, the two countries reached an agreement to stop hostilities on May 10.
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