IWT’s future

TOGETHER with the Kashmir dispute, India’s unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty has become the biggest source of bilateral friction in the subcontinent. In a controversial move, New Delhi held the decades-old agreement ‘in abeyance’ in 2025 after the Pahalgam episode . But as Pakistan’s senior leadership has highlighted, Indian brinkmanship in this regard may set a negative precedent globally, while also planting the seeds of a new conflict in South Asia. Speaking at an event in Islamabad the other day, Information Minister Atta Tarar said that India’s unilateral action vis-à-vis…