Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned that if India attempted such an act, “you will be again taught such a lesson that you will be left holding your ears.” File
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday (August 12, 2025) said India would not be allowed to snatch “even one drop” of water belonging to Pakistan, amid tensions between the two neighbours.
A day after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, India took a series of punitive measures against Pakistan that included putting the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 in “abeyance”.
Pakistan has repeatedly warned that any interference to stop the water would be treated as 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,” Prime Minister Sharif said while addressing a ceremony in Islamabad.
He warned that if India attempted such an act, “you will be again taught such a lesson that you will be left holding your ears.”
A day earlier, former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari termed the IWT’s suspension an attack on the Indus Valley Civilisation and said the nation would not back down if New Delhi forced it into war.
In an address to the Pakistani diaspora in Tampa, Florida, Army Chief Asim Munir reportedly said Islamabad would destroy any dam if it cut off water flow to Pakistan.
“We will wait for India to build a dam, and when they do so, we will destroy it,” he 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.”
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.
India and Pakistan reached an understanding on May 10 to end the conflict after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes.
Published – August 13, 2025 09:12 am IST
