Indus Water Treaty

Nehru defended his decision of not consulting the parliament or taking the MPs into confidence before signing the Indus Waters Treaty, let alone expressing any remorse over the blunder.

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif claimed that Pakistan will not let India snatch even a drop of Pakistan's water in the Indus River.

Indian diplomats and their families in Pakistan have been forced to search for costly and scarce alternatives without much success.

Government of India on Friday dismissed a Court of Arbitration under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as illegal, and rejected its recent rulings over Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in Jammu and Kashmir

India has chalked out an inter-basin water transfer plan for full utilisation of its share of Indus river waters. A feasibility study is being undertaken for a 113-km canal for diverting surplus flows from Jammu & Kashmir to Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan.

Explaining how the flow of Brahmaputra river increases dramatically in India while it is way lesser at the Indo-China border, the Assam Chief Minister said, “At the Indo-China border (Tuting): Flow is ~2,000–3,000 m³/s. In Assam plains (e.g., Guwahati): Flow swells to 15,000–20,000 m³/s during monsoon.”

Punjab and Sindh, two Pakistani provinces, rely entirely on irrigation canals connected to the Indus river system.

India has said that Pakistan should stop blaming India for halting the Indus Water Treaty, adding that Pakistan itself is responsible for the same