Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif Reacts To Diplomatic Tensions With India, Says: 'We Shall Respond To...'

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif vows to respond to every Indian attack. Tensions between India and Pakistan are escalating by the day after a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam.

Abbottabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while addressing the Pakistan Military Academy Passing Out Parade in Kakul said that his nation wound respond to every attack India mounts. "We shall respond to every attack by India," he said in his speech. He also said he was ready for a "neutral and transparent investigation" over the Pahalgam terror attack, but warned against any "misadventures".

Tensions between India and Pakistan have been rising each day after the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam that claimed the lives of 26 people. The attack was allegedly sponsored by Pakistan through 'The Resistance Front', an offshoot of the Jaish-e-Muhammad. 

Reacting to the tragedy, India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty and cancelled all Pakistani visas, prompting a fierce response from Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Standing along the banks of the Indus River in Sukkur, Bhutto-Zardari said: "The Indus is ours," he said. "Either our water will flow through it, or their blood."

His remarks come just days after the Pahalgam tragedy reignited long-standing hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

India On Indus Waters Treaty Suspension

India's decision to suspend the decades-old water-sharing agreement was formally communicated to Pakistan through a letter from Water Resources Secretary Debashree Mukherjee. The letter, addressed to her Pakistani counterpart Syed Ali Murtaza, cited "sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting Jammu and Kashmir" as the basis for New Delhi's move.

"The obligation to honour a treaty in good faith is fundamental," the letter stated. "However, what we have seen instead is continued terrorism that directly impedes India's ability to fully exercise its rights under the treaty."

The Indus Waters Treaty, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, has long been considered one of the few enduring agreements between the two nations. Its suspension marks a significant deterioration in bilateral relations and raises concerns about the potential for further conflict.