In this handout photograph taken and released by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Office on April 24, 2025, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairs a high level security meeting with the chiefs of the Pakistan forces and other government officials at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad.
Pakistan also suspended all trade with India, including goods passing through Pakistan to or from third countries.
Pakistan on Thursday announced the immediate closure of its airspace to all Indian-owned and Indian-operated airlines according to news sources.
It also suspended all trade with India, including goods passing through Pakistan to or from third countries and objected to India’s decision to hold the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, the report added.
The Pakistan government has said that any move to obstruct or redirect the flow of water allocated to Pakistan, or any violation of its rights as a lower riparian state, will be treated as “an act of war.”
Pakistan has also directed Indian military advisers at its High Commission to leave by April 30, reported PTI.
India on Wednesday announced a series of measures to downgrade its ties with Pakistan, a day after terrorists killed 26 men at a popular tourist destination in Kashmir, marking the deadliest attack on civilians in the country in nearly two decades.
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri, while addressing a media briefing, said that the cross-border connections to the attack were brought to light during a special meeting of the security cabinet, prompting the decision to act against Pakistan.
Among the steps taken, India suspended with immediate effect the Indus Waters Treaty, a crucial agreement that governs the sharing of the Indus river system between the two nations.
Misri also said that the defence advisers at the Pakistani high commission in New Delhi had been declared persona non grata and ordered to leave the country.
He also announced that the Indian high commission in Islamabad would scale down its staff strength from 55 to 30.
Moreover, the main border checkpost between India and Pakistan would be closed with immediate effect, and Pakistani nationals would no longer be permitted to travel to India under special visa arrangements, Misri added.
Following the Centre’s 48-hour deadline, several Pakistani nationals began returning home on Thursday via the Attari-Wagah land route in Amritsar.
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Pakistan reacts to India’s Indus Waters Treaty suspension over Pahalgam terror attack: ‘Water warfare’.
India’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty in the wake of the recent Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives, has drawn sharp reaction from Islamabad, with a senior Pakistani minister calling the move an act of “water warfare”.
“India’s reckless suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty is an act of water warfare; a cowardly, illegal move,” Pakistan’s power minister Awais Lekhari said in a post on X late on Wednesday night.
The decades-old treaty, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, has long been considered one of the few stable agreements between India and Pakistan, the nuclear-armed neighbours who share a rocky history.
India suspends the Indus Waters Treaty.
Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri on Wednesday said a cabinet committee on security was briefed on the cross-border linkages of the recently held Pahalgam attack, and New Delhi would suspend a six-decade-old river-sharing treaty and close the only land crossing between the neighbours.
