Indus Water Treaty News: India Says Indus Waters Treaty to Remain Suspended

[00:00:02]The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty is now officially held in abeyance and highly placed sources confirm it will never function for India in its present form.

[00:00:13]New Delhi has delivered a clear ultimatum stating that renegotiation will only be considered if Pakistan takes credible, verifiable steps to abjure terrorism.

[00:00:24]Yet ground realities show the exact opposite as proscribed UN sanctioned terrorist groups continue to openly hold public events inside Pakistan with state impunity.

[00:00:37]Because Pakistan has taken zero credible steps to dismantle this infrastructure, India has stripped away its good faith status asserting its absolute sovereign right under international law to terminate the agreement because the outdated 1960 framework is now permanently defunct.

[00:00:56]In response to this freeze, Islamabad has rushed to both neutral experts and the court of arbitration simultaneously.

[00:01:04]A double appealing move that is procedurally incorrect under the treaty's phase stages of appeal.

[00:01:11]New Delhi is completely ignoring this flawed parallel proceedings while a year into this standoff, Islamabad continues to play the victim card globally claiming 240 million citizens face immediate water starvation.

[00:01:26]But official records completely dismantle this narrative because data proves Pakistan actually wastes over 50% of its drawn water due to terrible infrastructure.

[00:01:37]Letting more water run off into the sea than India's entire legal share of the Indus Waters after failing to build any large-scale storage for decades.

[00:01:47]Instead of cooperating, Pakistan has historically objected to every major hydro project India initiated. But New Delhi is no longer bound by these restrictions.

[00:01:59]The treaty was negotiated in the 1950s using ancient engineering standards, but today hydrology technology has fundamentally changed, meaning ancient techniques in infrastructure and dam building no longer work for India.

[00:02:13]New Delhi is now moving aggressively to build modern infrastructure to ensure every drop of its rightful share is redirected to transform historically water-stressed domestic regions like Rajasthan.

[00:02:27]Under these new Cold War protocols, India has halted all regular data and information sharing with Pakistan, [music] enforcing a strict intelligence blackout with the sole humanitarian exception being critical flood information on western rivers, which will only be provided through the High Commission in Islamabad.

[00:02:47]With the old rules permanently shattered, a diplomatically isolated Pakistan has run out of international leverage.

[00:02:55]New Delhi has drawn a definitive line in the geopolitical ledger, proving that blood and water will no longer flow together.

[00:03:04]Bureau Report, NDTV World.