{"id":4877,"date":"2025-04-23T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:00:13","slug":"pm-announces-emergency-nsc-meeting-after-india-suspends-indus-waters-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"PM announces emergency NSC meeting after India suspends Indus Waters Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) for Thursday morning, following India\u2019s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and a series of escalatory measures targeting Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes in the wake of a deadly attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) that killed 26 tourists and injured 17 others.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night announcement of the NSC meeting was confirmed by Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar in a post on X. The NSC, Pakistan\u2019s highest forum for national security and foreign policy, comprises the prime minister, key cabinet members, military chiefs, and intelligence leaders.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri earlier addressed the media in New Delhi, outlining five major measures in what he termed a \u201cdecisive response to cross-border terrorism.\u201d Among them, the immediate suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty was the most significant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 will be held in abeyance with immediate effect, until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism,\u201d Misri said, directly linking Pakistan to the Pahalgam attack, although no evidence has been publicly presented.<\/p>\n<p>Misri also confirmed that the Attari-Wagah border crossing has been closed with immediate effect, while\u00a0Pakistani nationals currently in India with valid documents have been asked to return before May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, India has banned Pakistani nationals from entering India under the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme; declared Pakistan\u2019s military advisers in New Delhi persona non grata, ordering them to leave within a week; and, reduced the strength of Pakistan\u2019s diplomatic staff in New Delhi from 55 to 30, while simultaneously withdrawing its own defence personnel from Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Office expressed concern over the loss of lives in Pahalgam attack and extended condolences to the victims\u2019 families. However, officials stopped short of addressing the accusations from New Delhi.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) for Thursday morning, following India\u2019s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and a series of escalatory measures targeting Pakistan. The move comes in the wake of a deadly attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) that killed 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}