Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has issued a fresh warning to India on the outcome of the Indus Water Treaty with India after the April 22 Pahalgam attack. He said India was using the river as a “weapon”, adding that it was Pakistan’s “lifeline” and the people living along these rivers wanted “peace with dignity”, not “surrender”. ANI quoted Bhutto as saying, “Pakistan must speak clearly. The Indus is not a pressure point. The Indus is not a bargaining chip. The Indus is not a weapon to be placed in the hands of India. The Indus is the lifeline of Pakistan. And any attempt to convert that lifeline into a noose must be considered a threat to the existence of our state. This is the message Pakistan must give to India.”“India has not honored its commitments; using water resources as a weapon is dangerous,” he said.He said, “We want peace, but peace with respect. We want talks, but talks within the law. We want co-existence, but not surrender. So let a message go from this seminar, from this city, from this moment. Pakistan will protect its waters, its people, its treaties, its sovereignty and its future.”This comes a day after Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Musadiq Malik warned to “cut off those hands” that try to “touch our waters”.Pakistan’s Information Minister Ataullah Tarar further said, “The control of a tap there is in the hands of the Prime Minister of the neighboring country. He says that he will not allow even a single drop of water to flow in Pakistan.”The comments by the Pakistan leadership come after India suspended the 1960 water-sharing agreement following the Pakistan-linked terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 civilians. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said last year that “blood and water cannot flow together,” adding that the treaty would remain in abeyance until Islamabad takes credible and verifiable action against terrorist groups operating from its territory.