Pakistan's foreign minister says India cannot unilaterally suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, after arbitration court ruled the pact remains binding.
Pakistan’s foreign minister said India cannot unilaterally suspend the Indus Waters Treaty when it becomes inconvenient, citing an international arbitration court’s August ruling that the accord remains fully binding. The statement came at a UN General Assembly ministerial meeting on Kashmir.
- ▪India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty in April of last year, citing unspecified grounds for ending the decades-old agreement between the two nations.
- ▪A brief military conflict between India and Pakistan followed the suspension in May 2025.
- ▪The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in August that the treaty remains fully in force and that India had no legal justification for suspension or termination.
- ▪Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar stressed the treaty contains no clause permitting unilateral suspension by either party.
- ▪Dar made his remarks during an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Contact Group meeting on Jammu and Kashmir at the UN General Assembly in New York.
- ▪Pakistan argues that international obligations cannot be discarded simply because they have become inconvenient for one side.
- ▪The Indus Waters Treaty is described as a binding international agreement with no provision for unilateral action by either signatory.
Source: according to media reports
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