Overview

• Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar said water available due to the Indus Waters Treaty being in abeyance will be routed to Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan within roughly 12 to 18 months.
• At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Indian diplomat Anupama Singh accused Pakistan of state-sponsored cross-border terrorism and said this undermines the conditions for implementing the treaty.
• India has kept the treaty’s mechanisms suspended since April following the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people, with notices sent to Pakistan and the World Bank.
• Officials and commentators pressed for a reassessment of the treaty’s relevance in light of climate change, technological advances and clean energy needs, even as India reported sharing flood data with Pakistan on humanitarian grounds.
• Pakistan has objected to the suspension and warned that any diversion or restriction of downstream flows would be considered an act of war, as India advances projects and studies to capture more Indus-basin water domestically.