Overview

• Home Minister Amit Shah reaffirmed on June 21 that the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty will never be reinstated following the Pahalgam terror attack in April
• India intends to build a canal to divert water from the western rivers governed by the pact to irrigate drought-hit areas of Rajasthan
• The suspension of the treaty has halted cross-border hydrological data sharing, complicating Pakistan’s irrigation planning and flood management
• Pakistan maintains the treaty cannot be unilaterally altered and labels India’s move illegal under both the pact and international law
• The agreement had secured water access for roughly 80% of Pakistani farmland through the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab rivers