| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that if India tries to restrict water flows it will be treated as an extreme situation, and Pakistan will keep the option of a nuclear response open.
nuclear threat rhetoric
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
Pakistan's former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar said India is a rogue state and that suspending the Indus Water Treaty shows it is not fit to remain in the UN General Assembly.
Hina Rabbani Khar remarks
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
An 850 MW Ratle hydropower project in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, has been given the green light and will be built.
Ratle hydropower project
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
The 1,000 MW Pakal Dul project and Dulhasti Stage II hydropower project on the Chenab in Kishtwar have been approved, and the Sawalkot project on the Chenab in Kashmir, to be built for 31,380 crore rupees with a stated capacity of 10,856 MW, has also been approved.
Chenab hydropower projects
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
A Chenab-Beas link tunnel project costing 2,352 crore rupees has begun in Himachal Pradesh, with an 8 km tunnel that will divert extra Chenab river water to the Beas basin.
Chenab-Beas link tunnel
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
Pakistan's North Western Canal, which used to receive about 6,200 cusecs, is now getting only 2,100 cusecs — a 64.1% reduction.
North Western Canal shortfall
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
The Dadu Canal in Pakistan, which previously received about 5,000 cusecs, is now getting only 860 cusecs — 82% less water.
Dadu Canal shortfall
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
According to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, the Rice Canal is receiving only 5,300 cusecs of water against its usual 8,700 cusecs, a 38% shortfall.
Rice Canal shortfall
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
Since suspending the treaty, India now first fulfills its own water needs and only releases the leftover water to Pakistan, unlike before when it released water according to the treaty terms.
post-suspension water policy
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
In November 1960 in the Lok Sabha, then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru responded to questions about the 80-20 water split by saying critics were showing a narrow mindset and that India was giving the water to establish peace.
Nehru Lok Sabha remarks
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
Under the Indus Water Treaty agreement, India also paid Pakistan 83 crore rupees.
payment to Pakistan
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
For 65 years under the treaty, India received only 20% of the water of the six Indus basin rivers while 80% went to Pakistan.
80-20 water split
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
After the Pahalgam terror attack by Pakistani terrorists in April 2025, India suspended the Indus Water Treaty for the first time on 23 April 2025.
treaty suspension
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-01 |
The Indus Water Treaty was signed on 19 September 1960 and survived the 1965 war, 1971 war, 1999 Kargil conflict, Mumbai terror attack, and Pulwama attack.
Indus treaty history
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Some people living in India wrote this letter jointly with their Pakistani counterparts, thereby reopening the 'peace shop'.
peace letter signatories
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
India's leaders believed that forgiving Pakistan and growing closer to it would please Indian Muslims and win their votes, and this appeasement politics continued in India until 2014.
Muslim appeasement politics
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Before 2014, the same 'big brother' narrative was applied to majority Hindus in India, who were told to forgive every mistake of minority Muslims and bear the responsibility for secularism.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
In the past, terrorist Yasin Malik was part of this 'peace shop', and Pervez Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif ran it while harming India in its name.
'peace shop' history
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Indian signatories of the letter are batting for Pakistan rather than India; they appear to be Pakistan sympathizers whom Pakistan has now reactivated.
Pakistan sympathizers
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Pakistani signatories know that once these cross-border services restart, it will become much easier for them to send terrorists into India.
infiltration risk
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The letter demands restarting trade and travel between Attari and Wagah, the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, the Delhi-Lahore bus service, the Samjhauta Express, the Kargil-Skardu route, and commercial airline services between India and Pakistan.
cross-border connectivity demands
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The letter's list of signatories includes 56 people from Pakistan.
Pakistani signatories count
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
A handful of people in India and Pakistan run a 'peace shop' in the name of good India-Pakistan relations, which was shut after Operation Sindoor and has now reopened with new packaging.
'peace shop' narrative
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
If Pakistan ever dares to attack India again, Operation Sindoor will resume.
Operation Sindoor deterrence
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Indian government's stated position is that Operation Sindoor, launched after the Pahalgam attack, has not ended and is still ongoing.
Operation Sindoor status
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