The Indus River, the lifeblood of Pakistan, has been a source of sustenance, livelihood, and prosperity for millions of people living in the Indus Basin. Stretching over 3,180 kilometers from the ...

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 ...

Q2: How vulnerable is Pakistan? A2: Pakistan depends critically on the Indus.Over three-quarters of the country’s annually available renewable water resources come from outside its borders, almost ...

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.

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.

People walk next to a cultivated land on the dry riverbed of the Indus River in Hyderabad, Pakistan April 25, 2025. REUTERS/Yasir Rajput/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab.

India paused the Indus Waters Treaty within 24 hours of an attack in the disputed region of Kashmir on April 22 that killed mostly Indian tourists, for which India blames Pakistan. Pakistan has ...

Home to 268 million habitants, the Indus River basin is situated at a hydrologically fragile location. The basin is ranked first among the world’s 78 water towers in terms of vulnerability, ...

The Indus Waters Treaty was brokered by the World Bank to address the question of water sharing, crucial to agriculture in the region — which is now home to around 1.6 billion people.