After the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahgam, India suddenly put the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan. The 1960 agreement between the two countries controls the water sharing of six transboundary rivers of the Indus basin.
India has also indicated that it wants to resume the treaty and has given a notice to Pakistan in this regard in January 2023. Pakistan is yet to respond to the notice.
Being the upper ripper state, India has more control over the flow of water in these rivers. It is sometimes described as India’s biggest benefit against Pakistan’s support for terrorism, given that the country’s huge dependence on these rivers for agriculture, electricity and economy.
However, sharing the water of the transboundary rivers in general, and the treaty is a highly complex issue in particular, which includes several layers.
To understand some of these, the Indian Express has invited Uttam Kumar Sinha for a explained session on Friday. Sinha is one of the most informed people on the Sindhu Waters Treaty, a senior companion of Manohar Parrikar-Dasa and managing editor of strategic analysis, has written an official book on the subject, the Indus Basin a few years ago. His second book on the treaty, Trial by Water: Indus Basin and India-Pakistan Relations, are expected to be released later this month.
For more than five decades, the Indus Waters Treaty did uninterrupted work, the war between the two countries also survived. However, the continuous use of Pakistan’s terrorist attacks to hurt India may change the situation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has said that blood and water cannot flow together, saying that India can suppress its advantage of being an upper ripper state to prevent Pakistan from supporting terrorism.
Additionally, it has been argued that the 1960 Treaty was very generous for Pakistan, effectively allocating about 80 percent of the joint flow of rivers in that country. The ground situation has changed considerably in the last 65 years, which requires re -organizing for factors such as increased population, climate change, and new techniques that allow for better use of river water.
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Incidentally, it is not just India which is unhappy with the treaty. Pakistan also thinks that the 1960 treaty was unfair for this, although it never officially called to re -organize the conditions.
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