Pakistan accuses India of suspending the Indus Waters Treaty

Pakistan has reiterated its opposition to India’s decision to place the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, describing the move as illegal, unilateral and a violation of international legal obligations. Pakistani officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi, said the suspension follows the Pahalgam terror attack and warned that treating shared rivers as a strategic asset threatens regional stability and water security for Pakistan’s agrarian economy and power generation.

At an international seminar in Islamabad, Pakistan urged the global community to reject the weaponisation of water and called for the treaty’s full restoration, arguing that any attempt to deny Pakistan its entitled flows from the western rivers – Indus, Jhelum and Chenab – would undermine the credibility of post‑World‑War II international agreements.