India Alerts Pak on Possible Flash Floods

WITH the weather office issuing a red alert on Sunday predicting extreme rainfall over the next two days in J&K, India formally notified Pakistan about the potential risk of flash floods in the Tawi and Sutlej rivers as a gesture of good neighbourliness.

- JITENDRA CHOUBEY @New Delhi

The alert was sent through diplomatic channels rather than the Indus Waters Treaty framework, since India placed the Treaty in abeyance shortly after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

For its part, the Pakistan Foreign Office confirmed India's two alerts: on Sunday about the Tawi flooding, and on Monday on possible flash floods in the Sutlej.