00:00So, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the SCO platform to send out this very strong message.
00:05A message that the world is listening to.
00:09World free of terror, have scientific temper, cooperate with each other, innovate, people to people, contact.
00:16What was Pakistan doing?
00:18Crying, crying, desperately wailing, raking up the Indus Waters Treaty issue.
00:24So, India put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance.
00:28It's being held in abeyance after the Pehlgaam terror attack.
00:30Because the Prime Minister made it very clear, blood and water cannot flow together.
00:34Pakistan has to choose.
00:35You want Indus Waters?
00:37One, the treaty has to be renegotiated and there are reasons for it.
00:41Two, you have to stop terror.
00:43Yesterday, India categorically rejected a ruling by the Hague-based Court of Arbitration.
00:49We don't even accept it.
00:50The tribunal had claimed that Indus Waters Treaty remains legally binding
00:54and sought to place restrictions on India's work on some hydroelectric projects.
00:59Like Ratlip, for example.
01:00But, India has rejected it.
01:03Now, this is the power of the world's largest economy, which is fastest growing.
01:09You know, fastest growing large economy.
01:13Because, we have the financial heft to tell the world where to stop and where our rate prevails.
01:22India says this Court of Arbitration was illegally constituted.
01:26And that it has never recognized the tribunal or participated in any of its proceedings.
01:31The government has also made it clear that the tribunal has no jurisdiction whatsoever
01:34over a sovereign decision taken by an elected government in India.
01:39And neither this ruling or any future ruling will have any impact on India's projects.
01:43So, what did Shahbaz Sharif do?
01:45He cried.
01:47He internationalized the water dispute.
01:49The Pakistani Prime Minister claimed water cannot be used as a weapon or a political leverage.
01:54This is not a political leverage.
01:56India had reached out to Pakistan, even before Pahelgab, and said a treaty that was inked in 1960.
02:04There are many changes that have happened, whether it's ecology, whether it's climate change,
02:11whether it's change in demography.
02:13And we need to renegotiate that treaty.
02:15Pakistan chose to ignore it.
02:17Now, Pakistan's response, instead of addressing India's concerns on cross-border terrorism,
02:22was once again play this water card.
02:26Listen in to Shahbaz Sharif.
02:27I'll get you more on this talk.
02:33Ladies and gentlemen, South Asia, a significant part of the SEO,
02:40cannot realize its full potential without lasting peace.
02:46Excellencies, water is the lifeblood of our region.
02:51It sustains millions of lives, nourishes our lands, and secures the very future of our coming generations.
03:01It must never be weaponized.
03:03It cannot be used as an instrument of coercion, nor can it ever be exploited for political leverage.
03:13The treaties governing our shared waters are solemn binding international commitments.
03:19They are not matters of political conveniences to be cast aside at your will.
03:27They must be honored unconditionally in both letter and spirit.
03:32That means, on behalf of the
03:33destructions of the
