{"id":189539,"date":"2026-07-03T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=189539"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:33:03","slug":"indus-water-pact-to-stay-suspended-asserts-india-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=189539","title":{"rendered":"Indus water pact to stay suspended, asserts India | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132170829,imgsize-1443988,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Indus water pact to stay suspended, asserts India\" title=\"Indus Waters Treaty to stay in abeyance: India\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Indus Waters Treaty to stay in abeyance: India\">Indus Waters Treaty to stay in abeyance: India<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: India reiterated Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/indus-waters-treaty\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indus Waters Treaty<\/a> (IWT) will be held in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The ministry of external affairs said India&#8217;s position on the treaty is consistent.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>&#8220;The IWT stands in abeyance in response to Pakistan&#8217;s continued sponsorship of cross-border terrorism. Pakistan must credibly and irrevocably abjure support for cross-border terrorism,&#8221; said spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Following last year&#8217;s Pahalgam attack, India put in abeyance the 1960 IWT, saying blood and water can&#8217;t flow together.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The remarks followed Pakistan&#8217;s rejection this week of alleged Indian effort to control rivers by treating water as a &#8220;strategic asset&#8221;. <!-- -->Foreign office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said Pakistan rejected &#8220;India&#8217;s attempt to invoke baseless allegations of terrorism as a pretext for placing IWT in abeyance and obstructing the lawful flow of the Pakistani share.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/><\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Weaponisation of water,&#8217; says <keyword id=\"21718890\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"Pakistan-foreign-minister\" source=\"keywords\">Pakistan foreign minister<\/keyword><br \/><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Foreign office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi alleged, &#8220;Let this be very clear: the real issue is not terrorism. The real issue is the growing disposition within the Indian leadership to treat a shared international river system as a strategic asset that can be controlled, withheld or diverted at will,&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>The World Bank-brokered IWT allocates the eastern rivers (Beas, Ravi, and Sutlej) to India and the western rivers (Indus, Chenab, and Jhelum) to Pakistan, with some provisions for India to use the western rivers for limited irrigation and non-consumptive uses like power generation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Speaking at an &#8220;international seminar&#8221; on IWT Wednesday, Pakistan&#8217;s foreign minister Ishaq Dar said India&#8217;s stand amounted to &#8220;weaponisation of water&#8221; and could have serious implications for regional peace and security.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>The seminar was also addressed by PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto who likened India&#8217;s decision to pause the IWT to blocking of Strait of Hormuz.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal&#8217;s assertion that the talks with Pakistan cannot resume until it stopped supporting terrorism also marked a repudiation of the appeal by &#8220;prominent&#8221; citizens from India and Pakistan, to start bilateral talks.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>The group included former CM of Jammu &amp; Kashmir Farooq Abdullah, former R&amp;AW chief A S Dulat and Humayun Kabir, West Bengal MLA who generated a controversy by seeking to construct a replica of the now-demolished Babri Masjid.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/indus-water-pact-to-stay-suspended-asserts-india\/articleshow\/132170828.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indus Waters Treaty to stay in abeyance: India NEW DELHI: India reiterated Friday that Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) will be held in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.The ministry of external affairs said India&#8217;s position on the treaty is consistent.&#8220;The IWT stands in abeyance in response to Pakistan&#8217;s continued &#8230; <a title=\"Indus water pact to stay suspended, asserts India | India News\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=189539\" aria-label=\"Read more about Indus water pact to stay suspended, asserts India | India News\">Read 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