India put on hold the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan on April 23 following the Pahalgam terrorist attack, alleging cross-border terrorism and security issues. India put on hold the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan following the Pahalgam terrorist attack, which was based on a careful examination of several factors, India clarified at the United Nations on Friday (May 23). India made it clear that it was Pakistan, rather than India, that violated the 1960 water-sharing pact.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, dismissed “disinformation disseminated by the Pakistani delegation” regarding the Indus Waters Treaty. He reminded that ongoing cross-border terrorism, including the latest Pahalgam attack, resulted in the suspension.
“India signed the Indus Water Treaty 65 years ago in good faith. The preamble states that the treaty was entered into in a spirit of friendship and goodwill.”. During the six and a half decades, Pakistan has breached the intent of the treaty by causing three wars and thousands of terror attacks on India. In the past four decades alone, over 20,000 Indian lives have been lost to terror attacks, the latest being a dastardly targeted terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam last month,” the envoy said to the Security Council.
Harish emphasized that although Pakistan was abetting terrorism against India, New Delhi exhibited “extraordinary patience and magnanimity” at this time. Pakistan’s state-sponsored cross-border terrorism in India aims to hold hostage the lives of civilians, religious harmony, and economic prosperity,” he further said.
He added that regional security concerns, India’s energy requirements, and safety related to dams were other causes for the move.
