Tell him to get his mental condition checked: Union Minister Hardeep Puri slams Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s comments on Indus

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri addresses a press conference, at BJP HQ in New Delhi on April 17, 2025.
| Photo Credit: ANI

“Enough is enough… We will no longer tolerate this,” says Mr. Puri; responding to the Pakistani leader’s message to India that “either this water will flow from this Indus or your blood”

Launching a scathing attack on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari over his remarks following the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday (April 26, 2025) urged him to “get his mental condition checked.”

“Enough is enough,” Mr. Puri said, warning that India’s patience has worn thin. “Tell him to get his mental condition checked, what kind of statements he is giving… We will no longer tolerate this. Now wait for a few days,” Mr. Puri said, while speaking to news agency Asian News International.

The Minister’s comments came amid heightened tensions after the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which claimed 26 lives and prompted India to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty.

‘No bargaining over Indus’

On Friday (April 25, 2025), Mr. Bhutto-Zardari had said that Pakistanis would stand united and give a resounding response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions regarding the Indus. ”[W]e will not allow anyone to bargain over the Indus… The Modi government is unilaterally suspending the Indus Water Treaty…but I want to stand by the Indus River in Sukkur and give a clear message to India that the Indus River is ours and will remain ours; either our water will flow from this Indus or your blood,” the PPP chairman said, according to a Geo News report cited by ANI.

Earlier, Union Minister for Commerce Piyush Goyal also slammed the PPP chairman, and expressed confidence that many Pakistani nationals would not even agree with Mr. Bhutto-Zardari’s views.

”Pakistan is a despondent country and they don’t have any priority apart from spreading terror. It is unfortunate for the world that there is a presence of such politicians in it. I condemn this and I am sure Pakistani nationals also don’t agree with such statements,” Mr. Goyal said.