India is considering plans to dramatically increase the water it draws from a major river that feeds Pakistani farms ...

The treaty had survived three wars and other conflicts between the bitter rivals, while withstanding many twists and turns in ...

Stretching over 3,180 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau to the Arabian Sea, the Indus River is the seventh-longest river in Asia and the twenty-first longest river in the world. The river’s ...

Indian politicians say the dam would allow China to release 'water bombs' in future conflicts, or create floods or droughts ...

Map of the Indus River basin with tributaries labeled ... [Photo by Keenan Pepper / CC BY-SA 4.0] The IWT—brokered by the World Bank after the 1947 communal partition of the subcontinent ...

The treaty specifies how the waters of the Indus River basin — around which one of the world’s oldest civilizations, the Indus Valley civilization, flourished — will be used by the two ...

Genesis of a lifeline The Indus is not just a river, it is an identity ... India by its Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, with the World Bank (then commonly known as the International Bank for ...

China’s deepening involvement in Pakistan’s dam construction has intensified debates over its broader geopolitical motives ...

Pakistan denied any role in the assault, warning it would consider any effort to interrupt the river’s flow ... deprive it of the Indus’s flows, jeopardizing its economy and food security. Years of ...

NEW DELHI — A deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir has again moved India and Pakistan closer to war as the two rivals downgraded diplomatic and trade ties, closed the main ...

Exclusive-India Weighs Plan to Slash Pakistan Water Supply With New Indus River Project By Sarita Chaganti ... The Indus system runs through some of the world's most geopolitically tense areas ...

Factbox-What Is the Indus Waters ... India into the Indus river basin in Pakistan. The use of the water is governed by the Indus Waters Treaty, which was mediated by the World Bank and signed ...