Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday asked Pakistan to refrain from pushing India to war, saying that in such an event. East and West Punjab on either side of the international border will suffer the most.
“Punjab on both sides of the border will have to bear the brunt in case a war takes place between India and Pakistan,” he said while interacting with the media persons on the sidelines of his sangat darshan programme in lambi Assembly segment.
The Pakistani Government must understand and should try to defuse tensions at the earliest, Badal said.
Reacting to the move of the Indian government to review the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, Badal said the Central Government “was fully competent and wise enough to take an appropriate call on the issue of Indus Water Agreement”.
“Every decision taken by the GoI would be in the interest of the country and would aim at protecting the unity and integrity of the country. The matured and visionary leadership of the country is absolutely capable of taking decisions to safeguard the interests of the country,” he said.
Badal said India’s “mature and visionary leadership is capable of taking decisions to safeguard the interests and the unity and integrity of the country”.
Asked about the emergence of new political fronts ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, he said, “The new platforms will have no effect on the state polity.”
Punjab, which shares a 553-km long international border with Pakistan, has borne the brunt of attacks during Indo-Pakistan wars in 1965 and 1971.