Musadik Malik, the federal minister for climate change and environmental coordination, claimed that India was interfering with Pakistan’s crop patterns and food security by “holding and releasing, holding and then flooding” the Indus River system.
During the preceding month, Malik said in an interview with Bloomberg in London on Monday that “when the water was needed for crop sowing, it was not available.”
“It is to disrupt Pakistan’s crop patterns and food security,” he stated, noting that the government does not yet have crop damage estimates.
Following the Pahalgam incident in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) on April 22, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration unilaterally revoked the Indus Waters Treaty.
