PAKISTAN regards the abeyance of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) by India as an illegal act and argues that there is no clause in the IWT that speaks of unilateral suspension; termination under Article XII (4) and modification under Article XII (3) both should be bilaterally ratified.

Now, international law has been the legal defence that Pakistan has.

Pakistan continues to argue that parallel dispute proceedings are not a material breach in terms of VCLT Article 60(3), since it does not renounce the essence of water sharing. The Article states: A material breach of a treaty, for the purposes of this article, consists in: (a) a repudiation of the treaty not sanctioned by the present Convention; or (b) the violation of a provision essential to the accomplishment of the object or purpose of the treaty.

Moreover, citing........

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