UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has lashed out at India at the UN for weaponising water by unilaterally suspending the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) over \u201cbaseless\u201d terrorism allegations, calling New Delhi\u2019s actions a direct threat to its agriculture, livelihoods and regional stability.<\/p>\n
The exchange between the two neighbours took place at a high-level UN event held ahead of World Water Day on March 22, according to a statement issued by Pakistan\u2019s UN mission on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The spat followed a video message by Minister of Climate Change Dr Musadik Malik, who said India\u2019s decision to place the treaty \u201cin abeyance\u201d undermined decades of cooperation and violates international law.<\/p>\n
Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, told the world body that New Delhi would continue to hold the treaty \u201cin abeyance until Pakistan \u2026 credibly and irrevocably ends its support for all forms of terrorism\u201d \u2014 an allegation that Islamabad has already repeatedly rejected as baseless.<\/p>\n
The Indian envoy also claimed that there have been fundamental changes over the last 65 years, adding that \u201ctechnology for dam infrastructure, growing need for clean energy, climate and demographic changes warrant amendments to the treaty\u201d.<\/p>\n
He insisted that India had made several efforts to engage Pakistan to discuss these changes but \u201call our efforts to discuss modifications to the treaty with Pakistan were rebuffed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pakistan has multiple times offered India to hold a dialogue to settle their disputes, including the water issue.<\/p>\n
In a Right of Reply, Pakistan\u2019s Second Secretary Aleena Majeed dismissed India\u2019s claims and reaffirmed Pakistan\u2019s legal position.<\/p>\n
She rejected India\u2019s attempt to link the water dispute to terrorism, calling such accusations \u201centirely baseless\u201d and aimed at deflecting attention from India\u2019s own record of state-sponsored violence and cross-border aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has lashed out at India at the UN for weaponising water by unilaterally suspending the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) over \u201cbaseless\u201d terrorism allegations, calling New Delhi\u2019s actions a direct threat to its agriculture, livelihoods and regional stability. The exchange between the two neighbours took place at a high-level UN event held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16948,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions\/16948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}