CLIMATE Minister Musadik Malik’s warning against what he described as “water aggression” indicates Pakistan’s anxiety regarding a possible repeat of India’s actions that had exacerbated flooding in parts of Punjab during last year’s monsoon. New Delhi’s illegal and unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty — long described as a successful transboundary water-sharing arrangement — has already opened a dangerous new front in bilateral tensions. Not just that. The issue has grown beyond a bilateral dispute into a test of international norms governing shared water resources. The dispute is no longer just about the illegality of India’s........

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