Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the country’s military action against Pakistan has only been paused for the moment.
“We have only paused our military action. In the coming days, we will measure Pakistan’s every step by what action it adopts,” he said in his first address from New Delhi to the Indian nation since the recent escalation between the two countries.
On future relations with Pakistan, he said: “Terror and talks can’t happen together. Terror and trade can’t happen together. Water and blood also cannot flow together.”
Modi said he would apprise the global community that if any talks with Pakistan were to happen, they would be regarding the issue of terrorism and Kashmir.
Following the April 22 terrorist attack in occupied Kashmir’s Pahalgam, India had unilaterally held in abeyance the Indus Waters Treaty in violation of its Article 12 which says the provisions of the agreement will “continue in force until terminated by a duly ratified treaty concluded for that purpose between the two governments”.
