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https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/india-pakistan-indus-water-treaty-modi-b2993159.htmlIndia is working to stop water from flowing into its neighbour Pakistan after suspending a major river-sharing treaty between the two Asian rivals last year, a senior minister has said.
India last year suspended the 1960 Indus Water treaty with Pakistan following an attack in Kashmir that killed 26 people.
A federal minister in the Indian government said New Delhi was working to ensure not a single drop of water will flow into Pakistan. The two countries have been engaged in a diplomatic standoff over cross-border militancy and clashes for more than a year after a brief four-day conflict in May 2025.
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According to the treaty, India is required to allow 43 million acre-feet of water to flow into Pakistan annually. That makes up roughly 80 per cent of Pakistans total surface water, a crucial lifeline for its agriculture, cities, and hydropower generation.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,421 posts)RockRaven
(20,024 posts)to help navigate this existential threat to one nuclear power from fellow long-time-deep-mutual-antipathy nuclear power.
walkingman
(11,273 posts)ToxMarz
(3,161 posts)they'll sort it out
Stryst
(731 posts)when you cut off your nuclear armed neighbors water supply.
Tasmanian Devil
(272 posts)Blocking 80% of Pakistan's surface water combined with their already stressed ground water supply would be a disaster. If India carried out this threat (which would be illegal and frankly extremely difficult to execute), it would be an existential threat to Pakistan and could easily trigger a very disastrous response.
It's a good thing we have a functioning state department with experienced diplomats that can help defuse this situation!
Oh ... wait. Our ambassador to India is Sergio Gor. A GOP flunky with almost no diplomatic experience. But at least he's a warm body; our ambassador to Pakistan is ... unassigned. We have no ambassador to Pakistan.
fujiyamasan
(2,149 posts)Maybe the neighbor should stop sending terrorists over. Maybe that would help.
DFW
(60,731 posts)Punish a regime dominated by religious men, seems reasonable enough, but punish an impoverished nation of 260 million along with them, especially if said nation is their next door neighbor, and you are writing your own ticket for disaster, and that is assuming that no nuclear arms are even being considered for use. Pakistan's imams and generals will always have enough water for themselves. It's the other 260 million in the population who, if led to believe that it is all India's fault, can manipulated into being mindless cannon fodder for Pakistan.