Bilawal Bhutto Seeks Peace with India After Earlier ‘Blood in River’ Threat

Bilawal Bhutto Seeks Peace with India: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, stated Tuesday that Pakistan was prepared for peace with India and explained remarks he made several days ago when he said blood would flow over the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty.

Speaking in a session of Pakistan's National Assembly on Tuesday, Bhutto Zardari said, "Pakistanis will welcome the peace process (with India)."

In a speech at Pakistan's National Assembly on Tuesday, he stated, "If India wants to tread the path of peace, let them come with open hands and not with clenched fists. Let them come with facts and not fabrication. Let us sit as neighbours and speak the truth."

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"If they don't. then let them know that the people of Pakistan are not made to kneel. Pakistanis have a will to fight, not because we are fond of war, but because we are fond of freedom," he added, according to a report by Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

Bhutto Zardari's peace remarks followed just days after his remarks were interpreted more gravely. On April 25, in the National Assembly, he stated that Pakistanis would unite to respond to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's purported "aggression" regarding the Indus River's waters flow.

The relations between India and Pakistan have been strained in recent times following a terrorist attack that occurred on April 22 in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, and killed 26 civilians, with a majority being tourists, and injuring several others.

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After the April 22 attack, which had cross-border connections to Pakistan, India on April 23 announced punitive actions including suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, shutting down the only functioning land border crossing at Attari and lowering diplomatic relations with Pakistan.

X suspends Bilawal Bhutto's account

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's social media account on X has been suspended after he claimed that blood would run in the Indus River if India failed to release the waters.

"I would like to stand here in Sukkur along the Indus and tell India that the Indus is ours and the Indus will stay ours, whether water runs in this Indus or their blood," Zardari had tweeted.

Other than Bhutto-Zardari, Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's account was also withheld in India on legal grounds.

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