Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, on Friday said that India orchestrated the recent terrorist attack on a school bus in Khuzdar, Balochistan, categorically rejecting claims that India could unilaterally block Pakistan’s water supply.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad alongside the Interior Secretary, Lt Gen Chaudhry said that the assault, which occurred on the morning of May 21, resulted in the tragic deaths of six children and left 31 others injured. He described the incident as a direct assault on the nation’s values, education, and social fabric.
“This cowardly act, carried out on the orders of Hindustan by the terrorists of Fitnah Al Hindustan, specifically targeted innocent children — the future of our nation,” he said. “Where is the humanity, morality, or any sense of Baloch or Pakistani identity in such an atrocity?”
The ISPR chief further recalled that in 2009, Pakistan had submitted a comprehensive dossier containing irrefutable evidence to the Indian government, then led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “The documents publicly released in 2010 are a matter of historical record,” he added.
Referring to recent geopolitical tensions, Lt Gen Chaudhry dismissed as baseless the suggestion that India could sever Pakistan’s water supply. “Only a deranged individual could believe that India could deprive 240 million people of water,” he stated in a previous interview with Al Jazeera.
The water dispute escalated following remarks by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, in which he asserted that Pakistan would no longer receive water from rivers governed by Indian rights. The declaration followed a deadly incident in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and India’s subsequent suspension of a key bilateral water-sharing treaty.
