India's Suspension of the Indus Treaty
India has kept the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance since April 2025, the day after the Pahalgam massacre, and says it will stay that way until Pakistan verifiably abandons cross-border terrorism. Running alongside is an arbitration India does not accept. A Court of Arbitration set up under World Bank auspices has now held that India's stated reasons do not warrant suspending or ending the pact, and asked India to keep performing it; the Ministry of External Affairs answered that the panel was created in breach of the treaty, has no authority over India's sovereign choices, and that its findings carry no legal force.
- Indus Waters Treaty
- Court of Arbitration
- Ministry of External Affairs
- Pahalgam attack
- Kishenganga
- Ratle
- Permanent Indus Commission
- India-Pakistan
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