A1: The IWT governs water usage in the Indus River Basin. The frontier that partitioned British India in 1947, separating modern India and Pakistan at independence, also divided the two nations over ...

Will India be able to stop the Indus river and two of its tributaries from flowing into Pakistan? That's the question on many minds, after India suspended a major treaty governing water sharing of ...

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NEW DELHI: India is considering a significant escalation in its use of water from the Indus river system, a move that could drastically reduce the water supply to Pakistan. This development comes ...

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) dismissed India’s objections regarding the legitimacy of arbitration to address the ongoing Indus River disputes between India and Pakistan on Thursday.

India wants to change a 1960 World Bank-negotiated Indus river water-sharing agreement with Pakistan and has issued a notice to its South Asian neighbor, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The river is home to 22 endemic fish species and the endangered Indus River dolphin. Blocking water access could also damage India’s goodwill with other neighbors it shares rivers with, such as ...

The suspension of the 1960 World Bank-brokered treaty would mean India would stop the water supply of Indus River and its tributaries — the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Satluj — to Pakistan ...

In India’s Beas River, where dolphin numbers are critically low, 90% of dry-season flow depends on timed releases from the Pong Dam. In 2017 and 2018, water reductions led to habitat ...

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague rejected on Thursday India's objections to a Pakistan-initiated procedure over water use in the Indus River basin, reopening a procedure that ...

Pakistan on Friday hailed the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s Supplemental Award in the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) case, asserting that India has no authority to suspend the agreement unilaterally.

India put into "abeyance" its participation in the 1960 treaty, which governs the usage of the Indus river system, after 26 civilians in Indian Kashmir were killed in what Delhi described as an ...