On the backdrop of India’s mounting pressure on Pakistan for its patronage of terrorists to indulge in disruptive activities inside the Kashmir valley for decades, most media outlets in the neighboring country reported an upsurge in Jhelum river that flows from Jammu & Kashmir to Pakistan as the handiwork of New Delhi.

Mainstream newspapers and news channels based in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi reported the overflowing of Jhelum as the probable consequence of New Delhi’s suspension of a 65 years old bilateral rivers-treaty after the Pahalgam barbaric incident, where 26 innocent tourists from different parts of India lost their lives to Islamist terrorists on April 22, 2025.

New Delhi had sent a stern message to Islamabad with a major diplomatic offensive including the closure of integrated Attari-Wagah check-post, exemption of visa service to Pakistani nationals and suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, which was signed in Karachi by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan. India’s foreign ministry said in an official statement that the 1960 IWT will be held in abeyance with immediate effect until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism. Islamabad also made harsh statements arguing that Pakistan was ready to counter any retaliation from the Indian side.

Pakistan’s popular newspaper ‘The Express Tribune’ reported on 27 April that a swelling Jhelum river in Muzaffarabad (capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir), surprised........

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