The government of India suspended on Thursday all the visas of Pakistani citizens, to which it granted a period of 72 hours to return to their countryextendable to five days for those with medical needs, in the middle of the current Diplomatic crisis with Pakistan after the attack in the Indian region of Kashmir.
In the case of the visas already issued, they will be revoked as of April 27, except the medical visas, which will do so on this month, the note added.
Pakistan, meanwhile, ordered the suspension of visa from Indian citizens and the expulsion of diplomats from that country.
In addition, he closed his airspace to the Indian airlines and closed their terrestrial border with India, in its first response to the measures taken by New Delhi.
India’s decision
The decision made by the Indian government occurs one day after the Cabinet Security Committee of that country, chaired by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
The foregoing, in response to the terrorist attack last Tuesday in the Kashmir administered by India, in which 26 tourists died.
India held Pakistan for the attack and last night ordered the expulsion of Pakistani diplomats and the closing of the border with Pakistan.
To this is also added the cancellation of some travel permits and the suspension of the swing of the Indo waters, a key agreement especially for Pakistani farmers.
The visas canceled yesterday refer to those included in the SAARC (SVES) visa exemption plan For Pakistani citizens. Nevertheless, The standard adopted today refers to all visa categories.
In addition to this measure, exterior today recommended to all its citizens who are in Pakistan to return to India “as soon as possible” and asked its citizens to avoid traveling to the neighboring country.
THE ORIGIN ATTACK OF THE CONFLICT
The attack last Tuesday is the most serious perpetrated against civilians in the Indian Kashmir since March 2000.
On that occasion, 36 people died in an insurgent attack in a village in the south of the region.
The attack registered on April 22, occurred while the victims walked through a prairie in the vicinity of Pahalgam, city of about eleven thousand inhabitants and located 95 kilometers from the state capital, Srinagar. At least 26 tourists died and 13 were injured of diverse consideration.
Pakistan’s response
For his part, Pakistan, who ordered the suspension of visa from Indian citizens and the expulsion of diplomats from this country, closed their airspace to Indian airlines and also closed their terrestrial border with India, as the first response.
These measures were announced in a statement issued at the end of a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC), composed of political and military leaders, and chaired by Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif.
Not just that. The Pakistan government warned of India that any attempt to divert or cut the water supply after cancellation of the Indo River Water Treatyannounced by New Delhi in the middle of the diplomatic escalation, will be taken as “an act of war”.
“Any attempt to stop or divert the water flow belonging to Pakistan according to the Indo Water Treaty, and the usurpation of the rights of the lower riverside states It will be considered an act of war and will respond with all the force“, Details the warning.
The aforementioned agreement, signed in 1960 and negotiated with the mediation of the World Bankit has been a Crucial legal framework for the management of shared water resources between India and Pakistan for more than six decadessurviving even periods of intense military conflicts.
The agreement assigns the management of the Rivers of the Indo Basin between the two countries, Granting to India the control over the Eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas and Sutlej) and Pakistan on the West Rivers (Indo, Jhelum and Chenab).
This pact is considered more beneficial for Pakistan, since it guarantees access to approximately 80% of the total flowvital for agriculture.
Modi promises to punish responsible for Kashmir
Prior to this announcement, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, promised Identify and punish those responsible for the attack that left 26 dead in the back managed by Indiaa massacre that has caused one of the worst diplomatic climbs with Pakistan.
“India will identify, track and punish each terrorist and who support them. We will persecute them to the confines of the earth. The spirit of India will never be broken by terrorism. Terrorism will not be unpunished“Modi said in his first public intervention after the lethal attack last Tuesday.
A conflict that comes from afar
Both countries are going through the greatest tension escalation since 2019, when an attack on the Indian Kashmir against a police convoy resulted in the death of dozens of Indian police.
The Cashmiro region has historically been a point of conflict between India and Pakistan since its independence in 1947, and for it they have fought several minor wars and conflicts.
Both countries demand the sovereignty of the territory, which is experiencing an armed revolt since 1989. India accuses Pakistan of supporting the insurgency, an extreme that Islamabad denies.
Pakistan performs naval maneuvers with real fire
For its part, The Pakistan Navy began naval exercises with real fire in the Indian Oceanin full diplomatic crisis with India.
“Marine ships will make surface and underground shots”read in the notice issued by the Navy, which states that The tests began at 03:00 GMT on Thursday and will end at 4:00 p.m.on the southern coast of Pakistan, near the port of Gwadar.
