Mr. Prime Minister,
This is not a partisan note—it is a human one. An appeal not from a nation, but from a witness of rivers. A believer in bridges.
On April 23, 2025, India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, a pact that outlasted wars, bombs, and decades of hostility. For 65 years, it proved that even in enmity, humanity could prevail. But now, in a single stroke, that bridge has cracked.
You must know, Mr. Modi: no one in modern civilization has ever weaponized a river.
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No democracy—no rule-of-law state—has ever cut off 220 million civilians from water without investigation, without legal process, without moral clarity.
This is unprecedented.
And it is perilous.
Water is Not a Tool. It is a Trust.
Water is not a resource—it is sustenance. It is sacred. It is sublime.
The very essence of our shared civilization—from the Sarasvati to the Sindhu, from the Ganga to the Chenab—flows through the arteries of our soil. To dam it in vengeance is not strength. It is moral decay.
Remember Karbala.
When the river was denied to Husayn ibn Ali and his companions, it was not just a crime against people—it was a crime against conscience. Those who sided with tyranny may have won the battle, but history remembers only those who stood with thirst, with dignity, with truth.
To this day, we mourn Karbala not for its blood, but for the denial of water to the innocent. And we revere those who refused to drink while the just were parched.
Why must 220 million Pakistanis pay the price for a terrorist?
You have 550,000 soldiers in Kashmir. Twelve checkpoints guard the road to Pahalgam. If that system fails, is the answer to punish a nation?
Where is the investigation?
Where is the evidence?
Is this now the new normal?
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A failure of state security justifies regional starvation?
This is not national defense—it is state vengeance.
And it cannot stand in the eyes of history.
There is no glory in hydrological war.
You cannot harness the Indus, the Jhelum, or the Chenab—not geographically, not geopolitically.
India has no dams, no storage, no moral grounds.
But it has something else: a global reputation.
Do not trade that for a moment of applause.
The Geneva Conventions, the Vienna Treaty, and the World Bank-brokered IWT all exist for moments like this:
To restrain revenge.
To stop emotion from becoming doctrine.
To preserve civilization against rage.
Mr. Prime Minister,
Be remembered not for starving a neighbor, but for offering a hand.
Restore the flow.
Restore the treaty.
Restore the higher ground.
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Because peace is not weakness.
Peace is the might of restraint.
Peace is where civilizations endure.
May history remember this not as the month India turned off the rivers—
But as the moment its Prime Minister turned back toward light.
Respectfully,
A son of the region. A student of rivers. A believer in justice over vengeance.
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