India’s strategic leverage against Pakistan

The same words, almost, were being broadcast on the streets of Lahore, where a cadre of the Lashkar-e-Taiba was driving around playing old speeches of the jihadist leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. As millions of Indian and Pakistani troops faced off in the summer of 2002 following the terrorist attack on Parliament House in New Delhi, India had considered abrogating the IWT. The terror commander thundered : "If you choke off our waters, we will choke off your breath, and blood will flow in these rivers." Last week, when India placed the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance as part of…