Spraying pesticides on his parched ridge gourd cultivation a street away from the Indus River, Pakistani farmer Homla Thakhur is worried about his future.
The sun is at its peak, the river is running very low, and India has vowed to cut supplies upstream after a deadly militant attack in Kashmir.
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00:00Spraying pesticides on his parched ridge gourd cultivation a street away from the Indus River,
00:07Pakistani farmer Hamla Thakur is worried about his future.
00:11The sun is at its peak, the river is running very low,
00:14and India has vowed to cut supplies upstream after a deadly militant attack in Kashmir.
00:20Thakur's fears were echoed by more than fifteen Pakistani farmers,
00:48and several other experts, especially as rain has been scanty in recent years.
00:53India, on Wednesday, suspended the World Bank-mediated Indus Waters Treaty of 1960
01:00that ensures water for eighty percent of Pakistani farms,
01:04saying it would last until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.
01:12India says two of the three militants who attacked tourists
01:16and killed twenty-six men in Kashmir were from Pakistan.
01:20Islamabad has denied any role and said any attempt to stop or divert the flow of water belonging to Pakistan
01:27will be considered as an act of war.
01:30Nadeem Shah, who has a farm in Sindh, who employed fifty workers,
01:36said he was also worried about drinking water.
01:39Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
01:41is very generous,
01:42is very generous,
01:43is very generous,
01:44is very generous,
01:45is very generous,
01:46is very generous,
01:47is very generous,
01:48so, inshallah,
01:49we hope,
01:50that the water will come,
01:51but at this point,
01:52there is a potential threat.
01:53The three rivers meant for Pakistan,
02:03a country of 240 million people,
02:06irrigate more than 16 million hectares of farmland,
02:10or up to 80 percent of the total.