Graphic: Map illustrating the Indus River system with its major rivers highlighted in blue, showing their geographical locations across the India-Pakistan region.

The Indus River has supported life for thousands of years since the Harappan civilization, which flourished around 2600 to 1900 B.C.E. in what is now Pakistan and northwest India.

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For more than six decades, this river network has been divided between the two countries according to the Indus Waters Treaty, which broadly allocates three rivers each to India and Pakistan.