New Delhi, May 30: Peeved at Pakistan’s oft-repeated allegation that it is being deprived of its share of common waters, India on Sunday said such charges were aimed at diverting the attention of their people from their “own inefficient” use of the vital resource.
On the eve of the bilateral talks on water here, India asserted that it has never deprived Pakistan of its share of water, not even during wars and had no intention to do so ever.
“India has no intention of taking away water which may be rightfully theirs…We have demonstrated this even in the past. When relations were at nadir, when we were at war, we did not use water as a weapon to deprive them of their share,” Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal told PTI.
–PTI