The capture on 5 August of a Pakistan-based terrorist by courageous villagers in Jammu shows yet again the reality. Which is that the military establishment in Pakistan will not relent on its campaign of seeking the destruction of the Indian state, even if in the process it succeeds in destroying its own country. The obsession of Rawalpindi GHQ to get revenge on India for the 1971 break-up of Pakistan ignores the fact that the separation was the consequence of treating the people
Clearly, the soft and forgiving approach followed by successive Prime Ministers towards their counterparts in Islamabad have not yielded any result other than a continuation of rogue behaviour on the part of the military-backed terror machine spawned by that “army with a country”. This being the case, what are the options? Suspending the Indus Waters Treaty would be a start. This one-sided agreement accepted by PM Nehru over the private objections of many gives as much as 80% of the water of the Indus to Pakistan, when a fair share for that country, given its smaller size and needs, would be 45%. Unless Pakistan acts the way a good neighbour does, rewarding it would be an exercise in folly, as the experience of decades — the 1949 ceasefire, the 1965 surrender of Haji Pir at Tashkent, the 1972 Simla accord, the many concessions given by Prime Ministers in succession — have shown the futility of showing generosity to get Islamabad to change its approach. It is time for India to “punch at the level of its strength”, as so evocatively mentioned by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval. Walking away from the Indus Waters Treaty would be a good way to start.
Suspend the Indus Waters Treaty
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