ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday has said that not one side of the two bound by Indus Water Treaty could unilaterally detach with the agreement and that Pakistan would continue to render complete support to Kashmiris victimized by Indian coercive instruments.
The premier presided over a meeting in the federal capital today which was attended by the Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif among some of the other key representatives of different institutions concerned with defense and security affairs.
In his address, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the government would never tolerate violence on Kashmiris and that both civil and military leaders were in agreement of pushing a befitting response against India in case of any aggression.
The premier cleared that Pakistan considered regional peace before devising its policies and strategies which was why Indian government might be wrongly taking state’s patience as a weakness. Participants of the meeting expressed satisfaction over Pakistan Army’s capabilities to oust Indian strategies.
The meeting observed that the World Bank was a guarantor in the Indus Water Treaty and hoped that the organisation would play its role to solve the issue after Indian premier, Narendra Modi was taking bullying to different fronts.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement over Indian water-bullying has come in after Modi’s meeting to review the pact sparked a debate highlighting possibility of cut to water supply to Pakistan as another desperate move to retaliate to Pakistan’s equivocal stance over Kashmir in United Nations General Assembly this month.
US wants to see normalisation of Pak-India relations: Toner
WASHINGTON: State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Tuesday said that the United States wants to see closer and normalization of relations between India and Pakistan.
Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, he said, “We want to see de-escalation in the political discourse between the two countries and greater communication and coordination between them”.
Toner said that it was in both countries’ mutual interest to put aside tensions, work towards putting aside tensions and de-escalating tensions, and establish more normal channels of communication.
The spokesman said that Pakistan was making progress on some of the terrorist groups operating within its own borders and carrying out attacks within Pakistan’s borders.
However, he also said, “We continue to put pressure on Pakistan to respond to those groups who are seeking safe haven on Pakistan’s borders.
Who are intent on carrying out attacks elsewhere in the region”.
