On May 22, reported by Reuters, Modi publicly stated in Rajasthan that India will block the water supply to Pakistan through rivers which India has rights on.
It is worth noting that the usage right of the three western rivers - Jhelum, Chenab and Indus River provides support for 80% of farmland irrigation and drinking water as well as livelihoods for about 300 million people in Pakistan. Once interrupted, Punjab and Sindh's wheat and cotton production will be severely affected, with an annual water loss of approximately 33 million acre-feet.
Currently, Pakistan's Attorney General Awais has stated that Islamabad is prepared to follow the international arbitration procedure, emphasizing that the treaty "cannot be abolished unilaterally" and warned India of "bearing the consequences."
According to common international law provisions, a country's water resource utilization should not exceed 20% of its runoff. If India completely blocks the water supply from cross-border rivers to Pakistan, it will cause devastating destruction to the latter's population drinking water and industrial agricultural production. Such destruction would be even greater than the destructiveness of large-scale wars, being of an extermination nature and constituting a crime against humanity.
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