In such a situation, if India stops the water of rivers like Chenab, Jhelum and Indus, then there can be an outcry in Pakistan. By stopping the water, not only will Pakistan’s cultivable land be ...

Agriculture represents one-fourth of the country’s economy. Rivers controlled by Pakistan Rivers controlled by India ...

A new survey finds India's rivers host around 6,327 river dolphins - 6,324 Gangetic and just three Indus dolphins. A majority of the Indus dolphins are found in Pakistan as the river flows through ...

No operational restrictions: India is no longer bound by the treaty's restrictions on how it uses water from the western rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab), potentially allowing it to build new ...

The Indus Waters Treaty was brokered by the World Bank in 1960 after India and Pakistan’s independence from British rule and partition in 1947. The treaty divided access to the six rivers in the ...

Under the treaty, India has control over the eastern rivers of Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas, and Pakistan controls the western rivers of Jhelum, Chenab, and Indus that follow through Kashmir region.

The Pakistani government said that if India followed through on a threat to block rivers it would take it as “an act of war.” By Salman Masood Reporting from Islamabad Tensions between India ...

In 1960, India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty, a World Bank-mediated deal under which they agreed to share the waters of the six Indus Basin rivers they both relied – and still rely ...

New Delhi — A deadly terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir's picturesque Pahalgam area in April brought India and Pakistan once again to the brink of war. The nuclear-armed South Asian ...

Under the treaty, India has control over the eastern rivers of Ravi, Sutlej and Beas, and Pakistan controls the western rivers of Jhelum, Chenab and Indus that flow through the Kashmir region.