you mean keep our good boy image and try to take it?? Is that possible??
Has any country gained anything by having a good image?? Indus water
belongs to India only taking what belongs to us back. The good guy image
is viewed as weakness by others.
Well, I am sure the upper echelons of Raisana Hills have several well-thought and war-gamed strategies to do it.
What I mean is that we should obfuscate the issue and break the treaty while like you said maintaining a pretense of a good boy image. One on-the-fly example is we can bring in our own definition of what constitutes 80% and what makes 20%. I am sure we can "produce" data showing daily production of 100 units instead of the actual production of say 120 units and keep 40 units and release only 80. Let them try and quantify the actual production.
We can argue on the point of division (if not clearly defined) - do we divide water at the source, midway, or at the point it is actually released into pakistan. That way we can use it before division.
We can introduce leakages and show that leakage is consistent with leakages in the water system across the country.
But yes, you and I agree on the underlying principle which is we must take back our water.