00:00Spraying pesticides on his parched ridge gourd cultivation a street away from the Indus River,
00:07Pakistani farmer Hamla Thakur is worried about his future.
00:11The sun is at its peak, the river is running very low,
00:14and India has vowed to cut supplies upstream after a deadly militant attack in Kashmir.
00:20Thakur's fears were echoed by more than fifteen Pakistani farmers,
00:48and several other experts, especially as rain has been scanty in recent years.
00:53India, on Wednesday, suspended the World Bank-mediated Indus Waters Treaty of 1960
01:00that ensures water for eighty percent of Pakistani farms,
01:04saying it would last until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.
01:12India says two of the three militants who attacked tourists
01:16and killed twenty-six men in Kashmir were from Pakistan.
01:20Islamabad has denied any role and said any attempt to stop or divert the flow of water belonging to Pakistan
01:27will be considered as an act of war.
01:30Nadeem Shah, who has a farm in Sindh, who employed fifty workers,
01:36said he was also worried about drinking water.
01:39Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
01:41is very generous,
01:42is very generous,
01:43is very generous,
01:44is very generous,
01:45is very generous,
01:46is very generous,
01:47is very generous,
01:48so, inshallah,
01:49we hope,
01:50that the water will come,
01:51but at this point,
01:52there is a potential threat.
01:53The three rivers meant for Pakistan,
02:03a country of 240 million people,
02:06irrigate more than 16 million hectares of farmland,
02:10or up to 80 percent of the total.
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