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Pakistan's former top diplomat and government ally, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, on Monday warned that the ongoing water-sharing dispute with India could lead to another war.

"If India decides to follow through on the (water) threat, we will have to wage war again," Bilawal told the parliament in the capital Islamabad.

His remarks came after India's Home Minister Amit Shah over the weekend said that the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a key water-sharing pact between the two countries, "will never be restored."

Following the Pahalgam attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, India unilaterally suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, a 1960 World Bank-brokered agreement governing the use of rivers that flow between the two archrival neighbors.

Bhutto, who headed a Pakistani diplomatic mission that visited world capitals to present Islamabad's case after the latest military standoff with India, said that New Delhi has the option to either share water fairly or “we will deliver water to us from all six (Indus River system) rivers.”

“The attack on Sindhu (Indus River) and India’s claim that the IWT has ended and it’s in abeyance... firstly, this is illegal, as the IWT is not in abeyance; it is binding on Pakistan and India, but the threat itself of stopping water is illegal according to the UN charter,” he further said.

He was referring to Shah's statement, who said: "International treaties can’t be annulled unilaterally, but we had the right to put it in abeyance, which we have done. The treaty preamble mentions that it was for the peace and progress of the two countries, but once that has been violated, there is nothing left to protect."

Bilawal also called for renewing long-stalled dialogue between the two nuclear neighbors to curb "regional instability."