India is considering plans to dramatically increase the water it draws from a major river that feeds Pakistani farms downstream, as part of retaliatory action for a deadly April attack on tourists ...

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 ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has hit back at Pakistan for claiming China could choke the flow of the Brahmaputra ...

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 ...

Graphic: Map illustrating the Indus River system with its major rivers highlighted ... a binding international agreement brokered by the World Bank and contains no provision for unilateral suspension.

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 ...

Environmental historian Daniel Haines discusses the Indus River's role in colonial power, post-independence agriculture, and the World Bank's involvement in the Indus Waters Treaty. The river ...

There could be damage to coastal ecosystems due to less freshwater reaching the Indus Delta, for instance. “Running water itself is a form of protection,” he said. “When the river reaches ...

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 ...