Pakistan flays India stand on water at UN meet

A senior Pakistani diplomat has told a UN-related event on global water scarcity that India had created an unprecedented crisis for Pakistan’s water security and regional stability by “unilaterally” holding in abeyance the 1960 Indus Water Treaty which regulated water sharing between the two neighbours.

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“This is not natures doing; This is a nation state deliberately weaponising water,” Ambassador Usman Jadoon, acting permanent representative of Pakistan, said at the roundtable discussion co-hosted by the Nations University (UNU) and the Canadian Mission to the UN on Tuesday, as he highlighted the material breaches; including unannounced disruptions of downstream flows and withholding of hydrological information that followed India’s action on the six-decades-old treaty.