Pakistan warns world over Indus Waters Treaty at global conference

A desperate Pakistan on Tuesday hosted an "international conference" and warned that no world order that is on paper would remain secure if the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) failed. India has kept the IWT in abeyance after the Pakistan-sponsored terror attack in Pahalgam in April 2025.

Pakistan's agrarian economy and power generation depend on the waters of the Indus River System. The suspension of the IWT, signed in 1960, by India has also left Pakistan blindsided on the volume of water in its rivers, as it doesn't have hydrological information for timely action.

India has time and again made it clear that "blood and water cannot flow together".

Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, who addressed the conference, described the IWT as "not merely a water-sharing



arrangement but a vital instrument of regional peace, stability, and cooperation".

Pakistani Peoples Party chief and MP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said the IWT was "never a favour to Pakistan".

The civilian-military hybrid regime of Pakistan has been highlighting the suspension of the IWT at the global fora. Pakistan, which was founded on the basis of the communal Two-Nation Theory, has been suddenly showcasing its pre-Islamic heritage. Its sudden embrace of the Indus Valley Civilisation, too, has to do with its clamour for the waters of the Indus Rivers System.

At Tuesday's conference, Pakistan brought together local and international experts on water and international law as it "seeks to reinforce its case against India's suspension of the decades-old water-sharing agreement", reported the Arab News.