There are many facets in the India-Pakistan ties as of now. Islamabad is more than disturbed by New Delhi's decision on Indus Water Treaty.
The dry spell imposed on Pakistanis since May 2025 has left both Rawalpindi and Islamabad high and dry. Worse; authorities in Pakistan are under immense pressure and are frustrated. In retrospect, we can say keeping in abeyance the IWT was the wisest move by the BJP-led regime and it has put Pakistan "in the dock".
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Objectively speaking - Pakistan has long back lost any moral high ground. Yet, it is making noise. More funny is Pakistan's new-found love for 'Indus' and Harappa cultures. For decades; it sought its identity and inspiration - two 'Is' from the Arab world and used to mock at its Hindu roots.
The destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, had triggered widespread, retaliatory violence across Pakistan.
Protesting mobs largely targeted the country's Hindu minority, resulting in the ransacking, burning, or destruction of an estimated 30 to over 100 Hindu and Jain temples, businesses, and homes across several provinces.
It was the Narasimha Rao era in Delhi. Foreign Secretary was J N Dixit. Within few days of Babri structure demolition, Dixit had landed in Dhaka for a SAARC foreign ministers' meeting. He caught up on the occasion with his Pakistani counterpart. India's reaction on the violence in Pakistan targeting Hindus and Jains was quite sharp.
Pakistan was told that India has reports and believed firmly that official municipal buldzers were pressed into service to destroy Hindu and Jain temples. Essentially India could corner Pakistan even in such a challenging time.
By its politics of violence against Hindus and other minorities; Pakistan had actually shot itself in the foot.
The bitter truth is by anti-Hindu mayhem in 1992, Pakistan "blunted" the edge it enjoyed initially for a campaign against India for the Babri demolition in the international community.
Another bitter and perhaps 'bigger' truth is that Pakistan has more often 'shot' itself on the foot.
In 2025, it orchestrated Pahalgam. The military commanders and the authorities in Islamabad faced numerous problems including economic crises, Imran Khan's protest and the fallout of other developments in international geo-politics.
But it never presumed an 'Operation Sindoor' kind of response from New Delhi. They knew Narendra Modi will not remain a silent spectator but an aggression like the 88-hour full blown military conflict and aerial strikes at terror hideouts were never in their calculation.
It is again walking a path that is self-destructive. They have sat on Trump's lap without realising that the US president has a very notorious level of credibility. He is just not truth worthy. But Pakistan is helpless and has been burning its own fingers.
In Iran-US war too, Pakistan is hardly a negotiator. It is just taking orders from
Washington and is being humbled step by step and often in a much higher speed.
Whatever the bravado and whatever is given out by China and the US; the fact is - Pakistan's image has taken a nasty knock.
Signed in 1960, India suspended the Indus Water Treaty in April 2025 post-Pahalgam.
The move triggered a strong reaction from Pakistan, where the Indus River system remains crucial for agriculture, with waters from the basin supporting around 80 per cent of the country’s farmland.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has intensified rhetoric over the Indus Waters Treaty with India by invoking Islamabad’s nuclear doctrine and warning that any attempt to undermine Pakistan’s water rights could trigger a “national response.”
But here too, it is not prepared well and it also does not have the real guts.
“If the closing of Pakistan's waters is a nuclear armageddon scenario, then Pakistan must not merely deal with this as an environmental issue, but as an existential assault on Pakistan that requires a collaborative military response,” he said.
The Pahalgam attack backfired on Pakistan by "damaging" its diplomatic standing and alienating its strategic Arab allies.
On the other hand, several Arab countries have bolstered defense and economic ties with India.
The incident sparked Operation Sindoor and that disrupted militant infrastructure in Pakistan and weakened Islamabad's geopolitical leverage.
A history of 'flawed policy' has left is further weaker and maybe even confused and directionless.
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