Overview
- Pakistan’s UN envoy Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told the Security Council that India’s unilateral abeyance of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty constitutes deliberate weaponisation of shared resources.
- He pressed for an early return to compliance through established treaty mechanisms, warning of threats to ecosystems, food and energy security, and millions of livelihoods.
- Pakistan highlighted the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s June 27 ruling affirming the treaty’s validity and stating that no party may suspend it unilaterally.
- India put the pact in abeyance in April after a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that it blamed on Pakistan, an allegation Islamabad rejects.
- Linking climate and security, Pakistan urged the UN to integrate environmental protections into peace operations and called for predictable, grant-based climate and biodiversity finance, as UNEP underscored a major funding gap for conflict-affected states.