India Slashes Chenab Water Flow via Baglihar Dam After Pahalgam Attack

India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan and decreased the flow of water via the Baglihar Dam on the Chenab River in the wake of the horrific terror incident in Pahalgam, a PTI report citing a credible source said. Additionally, according to the report, India is preparing comparable actions at the Kishanganga Dam on the Jhelum River.

In retaliation for the Pahalgam incident on April 22, which claimed the lives of 26 people, primarily tourists, India put the long-standing Indus Waters Treaty on hold for a few days. Since then, India has retaliated against Pakistan in a number of ways, ceasing imports from the nation, cutting diplomatic ties, and prohibiting Pakistani ships from entering Indian ports.

The suspension of the pact has been vigorously opposed by Pakistan, which has warned that any action by India to stop the supply of water into Pakistan would be considered an act of war.

Both the Kishanganga Dam in north Kashmir and the Baglihar Dam in Jammu's Ramban region let India to regulate the amount and timing of water discharges, a person with knowledge of the matter told the news agency. Both of these dams are on rivers that run from India into Pakistan, and they have long been the focus of diplomatic and legal problems. The World Bank has already instituted arbitration proceedings against the Baglihar Dam, while the Kishanganga Dam has come under fire for its effects on the Neelum River, a Jhelum tributary.

Pakistan is clearly uneasy with India's quick and forceful diplomatic and economic response to the Pahalgam atrocity, and it now worries that New Delhi may launch a military strike soon. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to find the perpetrators and bring about justice.

In the meantime, tensions are still rising because Pakistan has been breaking the ceasefire agreement along the International Border and the Line of Control for ten nights in a row. The Indian Army has given a similar response.

In response to India's action, former Pakistani minister Bilawal Bhutto made an inflammatory comment, threatening dire repercussions if India halted the Indus rivers. "I would like to stand here in Sukkur by the Indus and tell India that the Indus is ours and the Indus will remain ours, whether water flows in this Indus or their blood," he said while speaking from Sukkur.