Pakistan will not get water over which India has rights, India PM Modi says

NEW DELHI, May 22 (Reuters) - Pakistan volition not get h2o from rivers implicit which India has rights, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said connected Thursday, a period aft a deadly onslaught successful Indian Kashmir led New Delhi to suspend a cardinal stream water-sharing pact betwixt the neighbours.

The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, negotiated by the World Bank successful 1960, was among a slew of measures announced by India against Pakistan past period aft the April 22 onslaught that killed 26 men, mostly Hindu tourists.

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New Delhi had said the onslaught was backed by Pakistan – an accusation Islamabad denied – and the nuclear-armed neighbours were progressive successful their worst subject warring successful astir 3 decades earlier agreeing to a ceasefire connected May 10.

"Pakistan volition person to wage a dense terms for each violent onslaught ... Pakistan's service volition wage it, Pakistan's system volition wage it," Modi said astatine a nationalist lawsuit successful the northwestern authorities of Rajasthan, which borders Pakistan.

The Indus pact provides h2o for 80% of Pakistan's farms from 3 rivers that travel from India but Pakistan's concern curate said this period that its suspension was not going to person "any contiguous impact".

The ceasefire betwixt the countries has largely held, with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar saying that determination is nary speech of occurrence presently and "there has been immoderate repositioning of forces accordingly".

"The (military) cognition continues due to the fact that determination is simply a wide message...that if determination are acts of the benignant we saw connected April 22, determination volition beryllium a response, we volition deed the terrorists," Jaishankar told Dutch quality outlet NOS.

"If the terrorists are successful Pakistan, we volition deed them wherever they are," helium added.

There was nary contiguous effect from Pakistan to comments by Modi and Jaishankar.

India and Pakistan person shared a troubled relationship since they were carved retired of British India successful 1947, and person fought 3 wars, 2 of them implicit the Himalayan portion of Kashmir, which they some assertion successful afloat but regularisation successful part.

New Delhi besides blames Pakistan for supporting Islamist separatists battling information forces successful its portion of Kashmir, but Islamabad denies the accusation.

The arch rivals person taken respective measures against each different since the April onslaught successful Kashmir, including suspension of trade, closure of onshore borders, and suspension of astir visas.

Reporting by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by YP Rajesh

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