India holds the Indus Waters Treaty hostage: anti-terror leverage or 'water war'?
India has kept the 65-year-old Indus Waters Treaty 'in abeyance' since a deadly Kashmir attack, rejecting a Hague arbitration ruling as 'null and void.' Delhi ties it to Pakistani terrorism; Islamabad calls weaponising water a threat to millions.
The summary above is a neutral framing. Below, each side reports the same story in its own words — judge for yourself.
New Delhi says it suspended the treaty after the Pahalgam attack and will keep it frozen until Pakistan ends cross-border terrorism — rejecting the arbitration court as illegally constituted and its awards as null and void.
Islamabad says India's unilateral suspension violates a binding treaty and international law — a 'real threat' to the water security of millions of Pakistanis — and has taken the dispute to the UN Security Council.
