PAKISTAN Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal BhuttoZardarihas threatened thatblood would flow in rivers if water is stopped, in a sharp response to India’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) after the Pahalgam terror attack. “The Indus is ours and will remain ours - either our water will flow through it, or their blood,” the former Foreign Ministerwasquoted as sayingby ‘The News’ on Friday while addressing a public rally in the Sukkur area of his home Sindh province.

 

The Indus flows through the province, and the Indus Valley CivilisationcityofMohenjo-Daro flourished on its banks. And Bilawal said that Prime Minister NarendraModihasclaimedIndia is heir to a civilisation thousands of years old,“But that civilisationliesinMohenjo-daro, in Larkana. We are its true custodians, and we will defend it.” Bilawal said that Modi cannot sever the aeons-old bondbetween thepeopleofSindh andtheIndus,addingthat“theIndianGovernment has cast its eyes onPakistan’s water, and the situation demands unity among all fourprovinces todefendandprotect their water.”