LAHORE – Neither India nor Pakistan can unilaterally abrogate the Indus Water Treaty, say a top official of the Indus Water Commission and leading experts. As India has entered into the dirty game of hurling threats to suspend the treaty signed 56 years back between President Ayub Khan and India Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, Pakistani officials and experts are not paying any heed to the propaganda of New Delhi. Experts, talking to The Nation…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan still awaits settlement of Rs7.3 billion in cash as well as assets worth Rs5.2 billion, which India and Bangladesh owe only to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The issue of recovery of cash and assets from India and Bangladesh came under discussion as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday discussed audit paras related to the Finance Division. The PAC meeting, chaired by the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Naveed Qamar, directed the…
ISLAMABAD: Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Wednesday said Islamabad is preparing a dossier containing evidence of India’s involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan. “The dossier will soon be dispatched to the world leaders,” he said in an interview a day after warning India of grave consequences if it annulled the decades-old water-sharing treaty. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned “blood and water cannot flow together”, Pakistan had declared that if India…