In a growing multipolar order, India is downplaying international law. Thus, this argument is gaining traction that India’s chronic hawkishness, ultra-nationalism and apartheid-driven policy to unilaterally and forcefully occupy Kashmir– while relying on military control, heavy surveillances and unilateral legislative changes—are losing the ground as they fundamentally bypass the democratic Kashmiris’ right to self-determination enshrined in UN’ Charter and further endorsed by the UNSC resolutions on Kashmir. By violating the UN Charter and the UNSC resolutions, India has forfeited the claim that Kashmir is India’s integral part. Similarly, India’s 2025 move to unilaterally suspend the Indus Water Treaty—part of the broader Transboundary Water Governance Framework (TWFF)–has led the international community to conclude that, in pursuit of its hegemonic geopolitical motives , India has intentionally chosen an ultra-fascist plan to violate the established norms of international legitimacy.

India’s downplay of international law: After abrogating the article 370 which protected Kashmir special status and its self-autonomy, India’s recent move to suspend unjustifiably and illegally the Indus Water Treaty is a mega Indian design to undermine international legitimacy. India’s strategic and malafide use of “lawfare”—reappraising or altering legal frameworks —is central to South Asian regional instability. Critics argue that India’s unilateral decision in April 2025 to place the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in “abeyance” represents a continuation of the legal strategies deployed during the 2019 abrogation of Article 370. Together, these moves have transformed decades of established legal arrangements into instruments of ultra-fascism. Today, India has........

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