New Delhi placed in ‘abeyance’ its 1960 transboundary treaty participation after 26 individuals were murdered in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.
India will never bring back the Indus Waters Treaty with bordering Pakistan, and the water there going to be diverted for domestic use, according to federal Home Minister Amit Shah.
India suspended its involvement in the 1960 treaty, which regulates the use of the Indus River system, following 26 deaths in Indian-held Kashmir in April, which New Delhi referred to as a terror-backed act sponsored by Pakistan.
Pakistan refused to take part in the incident, triggering days of battles between the two nuclear powers – their worst military confrontation for decades, leaving them on the edge of yet another war.
Even after a ceasefire was agreed upon by the two countries last month, Shah stated that his government would not revive the treaty, which ensured water supply to 80 per cent of Pakistan’s farms via three rivers that have their source in India. It will never be restored,” Shah said in a Saturday interview with The Times of India newspaper.
“We will divert water that was going to Pakistan to Rajasthan through the construction of a canal. Pakistan will be deprived of water that it has been receiving unfairly,” he said, referring to Rajasthan as the northwestern Indian desert state.
The transboundary water treaty enables the two nations to share water from the Indus basin, with India gaining control over three eastern Himalayan rivers – Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas – and Pakistan gaining control over the three western rivers – Jhelum, Chenab, and Indus.
