India’s Hindutva President, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty – a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the ...

The Indus Waters Treaty was not formed in a day's work, it took years of technical, diplomatic and political expertise for its formation. The treaty was initially signed on September 19, 1960, in ...

Exclusive: India weighs plan to slash Pakistan water supply with new Indus river project By Sarita Chaganti Singh, Krishna N. Das, Aftab Ahmed, Charlotte Greenfield and Ariba Shahid ...

Pakistan is concerned that India's dams will cut flows on the river, which feeds 80% of its irrigated agriculture. It has asked for a neutral expert and then an arbitration court to intervene in ...

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 ...

Finally, India’s upstream position on the Indus gives it the hydrological upper hand against Pakistan. But India lies downstream from an increasingly assertive China on both the Sutlej River and the ...

A man works in a field in an agricultural community near the Ravi River, one of the three rivers allocated to India under the Indus Waters Treaty, on June 6 in Lahore, Pakistan.

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.

After Pakistani terrorists attacked an Indian Army base in the Kashmiri town of Uri in 2016, Mr. Modi told Indus Waters Treaty officials that “blood and water cannot flow together.

Even before the current suspension, India in recent years was providing no more than 40 percent of the required river flow data, said Shiraz Memon, a former Pakistani commissioner of the Indus ...