Ex-Pakistani PM spokesperson: Water cut threat to security

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00:00Let's talk about India suspending the water treaty.

00:03Officials in Islamabad have described this as an act of war.

00:07Can you explain to me why?

00:10I've just explained it to you that if there is no water, there is no agriculture.

00:17If there's no agriculture, there are issues of food security.

00:20And if there are issues of food security, what would Pakistan do?

00:24So I think this entire thing that will shut down your water is tantamount to war provocation.

00:33And I think responsible countries don't do that.

00:36And India shouldn't do it.

00:38I mean, India is not the place where this water originates.

00:42Water originates up there in China.

00:46What if tomorrow China turns around and says, we're going to shut down your water?

00:50What would India do?

00:51How would India behave?

00:52I'm not saying China would say that.

00:54But to whom does the water belong?

00:58Is water the source?

01:00Is water the river?

01:02Is water the basin?

01:04Or is water a civilization?

01:06And if you look at the history of water, you would find out that water is civilization.

01:11So as water flows, civilizations flow.

01:15And therefore, upper riparian countries have never basically come down to taking the position

01:21that India has taken.

01:22Or is water flows.

01:24Okay.

01:24And so if you look at the ian for the z mesh being living in the water and on top.

01:28And then a, on the bottom or something.

01:30You have to put in 10 desapare appears and in many times.

01:31You can see that awake, we are vision of the also.

01:32So the air is There.

01:32So the air is really, we can see that them being turned on there.

01:35But we have to start with cool weather.

01:36You can see that it felt as possible.

01:37But it is just as much as well.

01:39And the air is the climate event책.

01:40So that's good thing.

01:42I'm not told me about the weather.

01:44We have to MARCA right now.

01:45To go dlaolanca…

01:46We've given off a aluminum tab yet.

01:47And in the air is there.

01:47We have to go to BETH-like environments where they have been',