Amit Shah Chairs High-Stakes Meet to Cut Pakistan’s Water Supply Amid Indus Treaty Crisis

India weighs tough action as Amit Shah leads crucial talks to halt water flow to Pakistan, escalating tensions after suspending the Indus Water Treaty. Read more on Dynamite News

New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah is holding a high-level meeting to decide what kind of action is to be taken further on the Indus Water Treaty. Water and Power Minister C.R. Patil and the Foreign Minister  Dr S Jaishankar are also present in the meeting.

India has already informed Pakistan about suspending the Indus Waters Treaty by writing a formal letter, reports Dynamite News correspondent.

Secretary in the Ministry of Water Power, Dashri Mukharharji, had written this letter to Syed Ali Mortaza, Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources of Pakistan.

The letter states that the Government of India has given notice to the Government of Pakistan for changes in the treaty. In today's meeting of the Union Home Minister, there should be a very important discussion on what steps can be taken further.

We have seen a series of meetings taking place, and broadly, it was being discussed what the government will now need to do. Now, a culmination of all those discussions will take place at this very crucial meeting happening at Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s house.

The meeting will go on for quite some time because everything will be discussed in detail—the government is very, very clear about not sending water to Pakistan.

So, that’s something the government will now work on: figuring out the ways through which they can do that. The isolation of Pakistan is the top agenda at the moment in this meeting.

Once the meeting gets over, in the next couple of hours, we will get a definitive plan of the way forward that the Government of India will then be looking at implementing.

Pakistan has made it clear that withholding water and putting this treaty on hold is being considered an act of war. So, Pakistan will be keeping a sharp eye on it, and there could be retaliation.

The generals, the government—they are all timid of what will happen next. That’s why we are seeing one meeting after another being held. There was no need for Pakistan to act, but they did so because it fears retaliation from India.

Now, the formation of plans will take place. Pakistan, at the moment, is trying to garner support, but there’s an isolation of sorts happening for Pakistan.

Global leaders, immediately after the aftermath, tweeted and sent out statements. The world at the moment is standing right next to India.