Weaponizing water: How India turned the Indus Treaty into a tool of strategic coercion – Pakistan Observer

On 23 April 2025, one day after the Pahalgam attack killed 26 civilians in Indian illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK), India announced that the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 would be held in abeyance with immediate effect. Sixty-five years of water-sharing arrangements, arrangements that had survived three wars, multiple military crises and sustained bilateral hostility, were suspended by a…

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