AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has sharply rebuked Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for his recent warning to India over the Indus Waters Treaty, which has been kept in abeyance by New Delhi. Owaisi dismissed Sharif’s remarks as “nonsense,” asserting that such rhetoric would have no real impact on India’s resolve or position.
“Shehbaz Sharif is the Prime Minister of Pakistan. He should refrain from making such nonsensical statements,” Owaisi said. “The Government of India has already kept the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance. We have BrahMos missiles with us. These threats will have no effect on India. Enough is enough.”
The comments came in response to a speech delivered by Sharif at a ceremony in Pakistan on Tuesday, where he vowed that his country would not allow India to seize “even a single drop” of water that rightfully belongs to Pakistan. “I want to tell the enemy today—if you threaten to hold our water, remember this: you cannot snatch even one drop from Pakistan,” Sharif declared.
His remarks echoed sentiments expressed by former Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, who denounced India’s suspension of the treaty. Bhutto-Zardari characterized the move as “an attack on the Indus Valley Civilisation” and warned that Pakistan would not hesitate to escalate tensions if pushed into conflict.
The warning drew an even more colorful and sarcastic response from BJP leader and actor Mithun Chakraborty, who ridiculed Bhutto-Zardari’s threat of war. “If you keep making such statements and we lose our temper, then one BrahMos after another will be launched,” Chakraborty quipped. “We have even thought of building a dam where all 140 crore Indians will urinate. Then we’ll open the dam and unleash a tsunami. I have no ill will toward the people of Pakistan, but I have said all of this for him (Bilawal Bhutto).”
Bhutto-Zardari’s statement was issued soon after Pakistan’s top military leader, Army Chief General Asim Munir, made a far more alarming declaration during a black-tie dinner in the United States hosted by businessman and honorary consul Adnan Asad. In what appeared to be a thinly veiled nuclear threat, Munir said that if Pakistan faced an existential crisis in any future confrontation with India, it would be willing to “take almost half the world” down with it.
“We are a nuclear nation,” Munir asserted during what was his second visit to the United States after Operation Sindoor. “If we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us.”
The intensifying war of words follows India’s decision to place the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, a move that has significantly escalated political tensions between the two nations and prompted a flurry of verbal offensives from both sides.
