No talks on water-sharing pact, India clears air at UN

INDIA has rebutted Pakistan's claims at the United Nations regarding the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), accusing Islamabad of repeatedly violating the spirit of the agreement through decades of hostility, including wars and state-sponsored terrorism.

- JAYANTH JACOB @New Delhi

India also said that the decades-old water-sharing pact is misaligned with present-day realities, including the urgent need for clean energy, impacts of climate change, and shifting demographic pressures.

"We are constrained to respond to the disinformation being carried out by the delegation of Pakistan with regard to the Indus Waters Treaty. India has always acted in a responsible manner as an upper riparian state," India's Permanent Representative to the UN, P Harish, said at a UN Security Council Arria Formula meeting on 'Protecting Water in Armed Conflict - Protecting Civilian Lives.'