The Indian authorities announced that they will cancel all visas issued to Pakistani citizens, closed the only border transport with Pakistan and broke agreements on the use of water resources in the India River in 1960.
The agreement has been concluded through the mediation of the International Bank and allows you to use the water of the river system jointly, which is vital to both countries. For their part, Pakistan authorities respond to the visas of the citizens of India, close the airspace of Indian Airlines aircraft, send a number of diplomats and stop commercial operations.
The exacerbation of relations was reactions to an armed attack on Tuesday for tourists in the part -time -controlled part of the Indian Kashmir. India authorities have explained what happened as a terrorist attack. Islamabad is not accused directly, New Delphi is that the unknown separatist group “Lashkar-I-TIBA”, which announced responsibility, is linked to Pakistan.
The Pakistani government made it clear that it was not interested in escalating the conflict, and denied its involvement in the accident in Kashmir.