Pak Wrote to India to Restore Indus Treaty

Pakistan Sent Four Letters to India's Jal Shakti Ministry Since the Treaty Was Kept in Abeyance. India Has Yet to Respond to Them

- Zia Haq

NEW DELHI: Pakistani authorities have written to their Indian counterparts several times since April to reconsider the decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

India's decision to keep the six-decade-old Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance until Pakistan "credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism" was part of punitive measures unveiled by New Delhi a day after the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.

Pakistan's water resources secretary Syed Ali Murtaza has sent a total of four letters to India's Jal Shakti ministry since then, urging a review of the decision to suspend the treaty. It wasn't immediately clear when the letters were sent, but a person aware of the matter said that three of the letters were written after Operation Sindoor.