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Abbasi stated that if India were to halt the water supply to Pakistan by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, which has already been partially suspended, India should brace itself for war, as Islamabad is prepared to strike if provoked.

India had been looking to renegotiate the Indus Waters Treaty. Now, the suspension of the treaty serves the dual purposes of escalating the cost for terrorism that Pakistan funds and exports, now admitted by its defence minister,