THAT India decided to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) 65 years after its signing has added another polemic to the turbulent relations between India and Pakistan. India’s decision came a day after the Pahalgam terrorist incident in India-occupied Kashmir. India blamed the incident on Pakistan, which demanded evidence and called for an independent investigation. Two days after the incident, the Indian minister for water resources, C.R. Patil, threatened that “not a single drop” of water would flow towards Pakistan. Ironically, while India cries foul, it is working actively to perpetuate proxy terrorism in Pakistan through the TTP and BLA.

The Narendra Modi government regards the IWT as historical injustice to India. Speaking to the Indian parliament in July 2025, Prime Minister Modi stated that holding the IWT in abeyance has rectified a “big blunder” committed by Jawaharlal Nehru. The argument is that the IWT gave Pakistan nearly 80 per cent of the Indus river system’s flows. Modi argued that India derived its identity from the Indus, but that Nehru and the Congress had allowed the World Bank to decide on the sharing of its waters. India’s leadership conveniently overlooks the fact that India receives 100pc of the waters of........

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