NEW DELHI: Amid escalating tensions over the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warned on Friday that Islamabad would “strike” if ...

Pakistan stares at water scarcity after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty post-Pahalgam terror attack. This sparked humor on social media, including a viral ...

Following India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty after a deadly terror attack in Kashmir, Pakistan is preparing to pursue multiple international legal ...

Fifteen years ago, Russia and the United States signed the New START treaty to limit their nuclear arsenals. In 2021, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden agreed to extend the agreement — but it’s now set to ...

PREMIUM India has cited other reasons for suspending IWT, including changing population dynamics, climate crisis imperatives, and shifts in the water-sharing assumptions when the treaty was signed.

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For decades, the IWT treaty—brokered in 1960 under World Bank auspices—has endured as a Kafkaesque paradox, surviving three wars and countless low-intensity conflagrations. The partition of ...

India is accelerating five hydroelectric projects in Jammu & Kashmir after suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, aiming to boost power generation in the region by 4000MW. These projects, including ...

India has decided to hold the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 “in abeyance” as one of several steps taken in response to the brutal massacre of 26 tourists in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

Geopolitical tensions in the region, which have been worsened by the recent attack in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, do pose a major threat to the water treaty. So too does another factor ...

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The three rivers meant for Pakistan, a country of 240 million people, irrigate more than 16 million hectares of farmland, or up to 80% of the total.