Overview

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has confirmed the Indus Waters Treaty will stay on pause until Pakistan takes credible and verifiable action against terrorism on its soil.
• A central government outreach drive led by senior Union ministers will explain the strategic and developmental benefits of harnessing Indus waters for northern states.
• Construction is under way on a 130-kilometre Beas–Ganga canal, a proposed Yamuna extension and a 12-kilometre tunnel to channel treaty-allocated flows into India’s irrigation network.
• India’s suspension has reduced water deliveries to Pakistan by nearly 20 percent, prompting reports of dead-level dams and uncertainty over kharif crop sowing there.
• Pakistan and China have issued riparian warnings and threats of river seizure or reciprocal flow restrictions, underscoring escalating regional tensions.