THE Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has fallen into an unprecedented phase of jeopardy. After the false flag in Pahalgam, Kashmir, India held the treaty ‘in abeyance’. This unilateral action has propelled the extreme hydro-political tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries to a breaking point. The gravity of the situation was flagged recently as a premier global threat by the Eurasia Group in its Top Risks 2026 Report. The US-based think tank identifies the “water weapon” as a defining geopolitical risk of this year.

IWT was suspended by an illegal and unilateral action by India which is a threat to regional security and international laws. Moreover, withholding of critical hydrological data marks a critical evolution in the history of rivalries. Historically, the IWT, which was brokered by the World Bank, in 1960, has been........

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