Weighing its options to hit at Pakistan for sponsoring terror, India has decided to revisit the 56 year old Indus Water Treaty as PM Narendra Modi made it clear and bluntly opined that both blood and water cannot flow together. Taking stock of the situation with Pakistan, Modi reiterated that using water as a weapon the government has decided there would be no meeting of the permanent Indus Commision to set up to overlook implementation of the treaty till terrorism continues and India will take a call. India would expedite construction on three dams on the Chenab River, named Pakul Dul, Sawalkot and Bursar, the decision came at the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Modi in the backdrop of the Uri terror attack last week. According to sources, India will utilise legal rights in the treaty to the fullest and the construction on the Tulbul navigation project, the work on which was suspended in 2007, would also be reviewed. India will exploit to the maximum the water of Pakistan controlled rivers as per the water sharing pact.
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