Union Minister of Jal Shakti, CR Paatil, is scheduled to hold a meeting with ministry officials on Thursday following the Union Government's decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan in response to the terror attack in Pahalgam, sources told ANI.
A high-level meeting was conducted at the Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday morning amid ongoing developments concerning the terror attack near Pahalgam town in Jammu and Kashmir.
Following the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, the Ministry of External Affairs announced a series of strong measures in response, including the abeyance of the Indus Waters Treaty "with immediate effect, until Pakistan credibly and irreversibly abjures its support for cross-border te
Former Indian diplomat K P Fabian supported the government's firm yet measured response to the Pahalgam terror attack, including visa restrictions, expulsion of defence attaches, and suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, calling it a mature and strategic approach.
In the wake of Tuesday's terror attack which claimed 26 innocent lives in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, protests have erupted in various parts of the country as people express their anger amid the nationwide mourning over the loss of innocent lives during the attack.
After the Centre decided to suspend the Indus Water Treaty following the terror attack in Pahalgam, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kavinder Gupta said that bloodshed and water cannot go together.
As the world united in its condemnation against the Phalgam terror attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists and left many more injured, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated that he was "horrified" by the "senseless" and "shocking act of violence".
A day after the terror attack, India on Wednesday announced a series of steps to give a strong message to Pakistan for its support to cross-border terrorism, stating that the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 will be held in abeyance and the integrated checkpost at Attari will be closed with immed
Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin said Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir's speech "green lighted" the Pahalgam terror attack, calling for a firm response and blaming Pakistan's ISI for backing cross-border terrorism.
Taking to social media X, the BJP MP in a post wrote that hookah, water and food would be stopped to them (Pakistan) and the workers of Sanatani BJP would kill them after torturing them.