US EditionMEA Justifies Putting On Hold Indus Waters Treaty: ‘Pakistan Kept Goodwill In Abeyance’
- India suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan on April 23, 2025, following a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
- The suspension resulted from repeated cross-border terrorism by Pakistan, notably the recent Pahalgam attack, and Pakistan's violations of the treaty's terms and spirit.
- India cited escalating security concerns, dam safety issues, growing energy demands, climate and demographic changes, and Pakistan's obstruction of treaty modifications as key factors leading to this decision.
- India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, stated the treaty will remain in abeyance until Pakistan ends support for cross-border terrorism, adding India has shown "extraordinary patience and magnanimity."
- The suspension signals a major shift in Indo-Pak relations, reflecting fundamental changes since 1960 and suggesting India seeks a renegotiated treaty aligned with current regional security and resource challenges.
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Pak's decades of terror, Pahalgam last straw: India on Indus treaty move at UN
In addition to repeated cross-border terrorism, factors such as energy requirements and dam safety led to India’s decision to place the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan in abeyance, India told the United Nations.
Indus Water Treaty needs an urgent review
Even without a conflict, a comprehensive review of the Indus Water Treaty has been long overdue. Any honest review of the Indus Water Treaty would show that it has few parallels—rare is the upper riparian state which has such agreements with a lower riparian, and that too a lower riparian state that is relentlessly adversarial. Therefore, the question that ought to be asked about the Indus Water Treaty signed in Karachi in April 1960 by Indian P…
IWT suspension not acceptable: minister
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Water Resources Muhammad Moeen Watto on Saturday unequivocally declared that India’s unilateral decision to suspend the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) constitutes an “act of war.” Stressing that water is a lifeline for 250 million Pakistanis, Watoo vowed that Pakistan would vigorously defend its people’s interests and pursue the water dispute to its final resolution. The minister made these remarks during a seminar titled …
India Halts Indus Waters Treaty Citing Pakistan’s Breach of Trust and Diplomatic Understanding
India has decided to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, a long-standing water-sharing agreement with Pakistan, citing a breach of trust by Islamabad. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) declared that Pakistan had “put in abeyance” the spirit of goodwill and friendship that formed the foundation of this historic treaty. The Indus Waters Treaty, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, had survived multiple wars and decades of tension between the two …
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