Cape Town, May 21 (IANS) India’s action on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) seeks to protect its legitimate interests in the Indus Basin and should not be viewed as aggression, a report has highlighted. It said that India’s actions should be viewed as a long-overdue correction of an asymmetric framework based on goodwill that was never returned.Since the signing of the treaty, Pakistan has repeatedly used its dispute resolution provisions as a strategic instrument to delay and hinder development …
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) India on Saturday rejected the latest award issued by the “illegally constituted” Court of Arbitration (CoA) – purportedly constituted under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) 1960 – as “null and void”. “The illegally constituted so-called Court of Arbitration (CoA) has, on 15 May 2026, issued what it termed an award concerning maximum pondage supplemental to the award on issues of general interpretation of the Indus Waters Treaty,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokespe…
Brussels, May 9 (IANS) Pakistan’s military establishment for decades has regarded the sponsorship of terrorism as a “low-cost tool”, facing no meaningful accountability. By placing the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance following last year’s April 22 Pahalgam terror attack carried out by a Pakistan-based terror group, India has brought the agreement itself into the strategic “cost calculus”, effectively dismantling that insulation, a report said on Saturday.Writing for ‘European Ti…
Jerusalem, May 8 (IANS) India’s decision to place the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance following last year’s April 22 Pahalgam terror attack carried out by a Pakistan-based terror group is “principled, proportionate, conditional, and reversible”. The move is not an attempt to weaponize water, but a decision to suspend cooperation with a party that has long weaponised terrorism from its territory, a report has detailed. According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, Islamabad’s response was r…
Washington, May 2 (IANS) The India–Israel partnership functions primarily as an operational cooperation aimed at saving lives and dismantling terror networks. Today, both nations face similar security environments, confronting adversaries that exploit civilians, use human shields, and operate across borders, while adopting doctrines that emphasise surgical strikes, deterrence, and minimising civilian harm, a report has detailed. Writing for US-based journal ‘The Algemeiner’, Paushali Lass, a…
Colombo, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan’s military establishment treated the sponsorship of terrorism as a low-cost instrument with repercussions largely limited to diplomatic censure, episodic pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) or restrained military retaliation while the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) continued to function as a “one-way flow of strategic goodwill”, a report highlighted on Wednesday. Writing for ‘EuropaWire’, Dimitra Staikou, a Greek lawyer, writer, and journalist, not…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s warning on World Water Day that the country faces worsening water scarcity reflects a problem that has moved beyond seasonal stress into a long-term threat to economic stability and national security, according to an article in the Karachi-based Business Recorder.The drivers of this crisis are well understood. Climate change is altering glacial patterns, disrupting river flows and increasing uncertainty around water availabilit…
Mumbai, March 22 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said that former Pakistani diplomat Abdul Basit’s recent remarks against India show that the country “cannot survive without terrorism”.Basit, a former High Commissioner of Pakistan to India, during an interview with a local Pakistani channel, had said that attacking Indian cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai should be Islamabad’s “default move” if the country comes under attack from the US.”If America attacks Pakistan, even if…
United Nations, March 20 (IANS) India has reiterated that the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) will be held in abeyance till “the global epicentre of terror” Pakistan mends its ways.Pakistan “must uphold the sanctity of human life before talking of upholding the sanctity of treaties”, India’s Permanent Representative P Harish said on Thursday at an event held in the UN to mark World Water Day.“India has always been a responsible upper riparian state”, he said. “But responsibility is a t…
United Nations, Jan 27 (IANS) The Pakistani military directly “pleaded” for the end of Operation Sindoor, India has reminded the Security Council, dismissing claims of external intervention. “We will do whatever is required to protect and ensure the safety and security of our citizens”, India’s Permanent Representative P Harish also warned on Monday.“Let me reiterate again that terrorism can never be normalised as Pakistan wishes to do”, he said.While pointing out that Operation Si…