Pakistan will not get water over which India has rights, will pay for every terror attack: PM Modi

Pakistan will not get water from rivers over which India has rights, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, a month after a terror attack in Kashmir's Pahalgam that killed 26 people. It led to New Delhi suspending a key river water-sharing treaty between the neighbours.

The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, negotiated by the World Bank in 1960, was among a slew of measures announced by India against Pakistan last month after the April 22 attack.

The nuclear-armed neighbours were involved in their worst military fighting in nearly three decades before agreeing to a ceasefire on May 10.

"Pakistan will have to pay a heavy price for every terrorist attack ... Pakistan's army will pay it, Pakistan's economy will pay it," Modi said at a public event in Rajasthan, which borders Pakistan.

The Indus treaty provides water for 80% of Pakistan's farms from three rivers that flow from India but Pakistan's finance minister said this month that its suspension was not going to have "any immediate impact".

The ceasefire between the countries has largely held, with EAM Subrahmanyam Jaishankar saying that there is no exchange of fire currently and "there has been some repositioning of forces accordingly".

"The (military) operation continues because there is a clear message...that if there are acts of the kind we saw on April 22, there will be a response, we will hit the terrorists," Jaishankar told Dutch news outlet NOS.

"If the terrorists are in Pakistan, we will hit them where they are," he added.

There was no immediate response from Pakistan to comments by Modi and Jaishankar.

India and Pakistan have shared a troubled relationship since they were carved out of British India in 1947, and have fought three wars.

Both India and Pakistan have taken several measures against each other since April 22, including suspension of trade, closure of land borders, and suspension of most visas.