India, May 23 -- A Pakistani opposition politician on Friday reportedly referred to India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty following the Pahalgam attack as a "water bomb" and urged his country's government to "defuse" it to avoid famine in the country.

"Water scarcity is a war being imposed on us. Predictions about 21st-century wars being fought over water are proving true," PTI news agency quoted senator Ali Zafar of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party as saying.

"If we don't solve our water issues, we may face famine. The Indus is our lifeline - it's essentially a water bomb hanging over us that we must defuse," he told the senate, according to the news agency.

Zafar claimed that the Indus Water Treaty "explicitly bars In...