Sable noise attrah between India y Pakistanintimate enemies from the partition of India in 1947. Both countries have engaged in a series of drastic measures to minimize their diplomatic and commercial relations after 26 Indian tourists were shot dead in the Cashmere Controlled by New Delhi, a region that both capitals have been disputed for decades. The attack, one of the worst against Indian civilians in many years, was vindicated by an unknown group, basket resistance, but the government of Narendra Modi It soon link it with Pakistan, although without providing any evidence. Punitive measures adopted by India include the suspension of a Treaty to share the Indo watera vital river for both countries, which led Islamabad to affirm that any movement to block its channel or redirect it will be interpreted as “An act of war.”
“India will identify, pursue and will punish each of the terroriststheir instigators and those who support them, ”said President Modi this Thursday during a public event with his followers. Pahalgamin the Himalayas Regionwhere groups of friends, families and young couples were killed in cold blood while enjoying the day. 26 people died and another 19 were injured, according to Reuters. Following the attack, the Indian government closed the only land border operational between both countries, He revoked the visas granted to Pakistanís citizens, suspended the Indo Water Treaty and reduced the presence of Pakistani diplomats No Delhi.
Islamabad described the measures as “irresponsible, politically motivated and without legal basis” after denying any involvement in the attack. This Thursday his government has adopted his own reprisals. Ha suspended all trade with Indiaincluded from third countries, ha closed your airspace to the Indian airlines and has canceled the visas for their citizens.
Decades of armed incidents
Attacks against Indian interests in Kashmir suicide attack with a car bomb He killed 40 Indian soldiers, which put both nuclear powers on the verge of war.
Indian aviation reacted bombing what it described as a camp of militants in Pakistani territory, an action answered from Pakistan with its own aerial bombings, which felt an Indian military plane. Months later Modi ordered suspend the autonomy of the Indian Kashmira maneuver accompanied by an increase in the militarization of the region and severe restrictions on the civil freedoms of its population. “During the last climbing, both India and Pakistan were lucky to get out of the stairs,” he told ‘The New York Times’ the former Pakistani minister, Murtaza solangi. “This time we are in a more dangerous moment. A fractured global order and hyperventilated Indian media make it more difficult to modify in a rational way. Both countries will end up losing if India does not stop this madness.”
Particularly worrying is the decision of New Delhi to suspend the treaty that has served to share the waters of the Indo and its tributaries since 1960. That treaty, then sponsored by the World Bankhad survived the wars of 1965 and 1971, as well as the border skirmishes of 1999, but its continuity has now been questioned. For Pakistan it is vital, since 90% of its agriculture depends on those waters, to the point that the Pakistani government has said Thursday that it will consider any significant disturbance of the Flows of the Indo as “an act of war.”
