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India to review MFN status to Pakistan

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif

A Pakistani delegation led by the Attorney General for Pakistan, Ashtar Ausaf Ali, met with senior officials of the World Bank at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, to discuss matters relating to the Indus Waters Treaty that was brokered by the World Bank.

Farooq Ahmad Shah, Custodian of the Trade Facilitation Centre in Salamabad, said 12 truckloads from Indian-held Kashmir had crossed to the Pakistani side and another truck had come the other way.

Any such attack neither benefits Pakistan, nor Kashmir, Aziz said, adding that the attack diverts the world's attention from human rights violations committed by Indian forces in Kashmir.

Armed with more proof of Pakistan's involvement in Uri terror attacks, India's Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar today again summoned Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit and handed over proof of cross border origins of recent Uri terror attack.

The Treaty, was a water sharing agreement signed between Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then President of Pakistan, Ayub Khan in September 1960 in Karachi. "Continuing cross-border terrorist attacks from Pakistan against India are unacceptable".

India now generates about 3,000 megawatts of energy from hydropower plants along rivers in its portion of Kashmir, but believes the region has the potential to produce 18,000 megawatts and says it can use more water and still remain within the terms of the treaty. "Between the two countries, this act of revocation can be taken as an act of war".

Upping the ante against Pakistan, India has said it is a "terrorist state", which for years with complete impunity has been using billions of dollars from global aid to train, finance and support terror groups as militant proxies.

India on Tuesday said it was also considering a review of the Most Favoured Nation Status it had unilaterally given to Pakistan in 1996 - when insurgency in Kashmir was still at its peak.

"Blood and water can not flow together", the PM had said in the meeting.

India and Pakistan share some of the rivers.

During Monday's meeting that reviewed the Indus Waters Treaty, which took a decade to negotiate and sign, Modi said: "Blood and water can not flow together".

Pakistan's Defence Minister has termed the terror attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri town of Jammu and Kashmir an "inside job" and said the assault which left 18 soldiers dead was planned by India itself.

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India to review MFN status to Pakistan