India-Pakistan Conflict: The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) that Once Garnered Pats on the Back for Diplomacy Between India and Pakistan has been in abyance for a month. New Delhi’s decision that terror and water cannot flow togetra made a critical point in relations between the two arch-rivals. The indus water treatment has survived multiplects between the two nations, besides Thousands of Terror Attacks.
However, the April 22 Pahalgam Terror Attack Proved to Be the Final Nail in the Coffin for the IWT, and there wasn Bollywood left for pakstan to do in the case. India has maintained that the indus water treatment will be in abyance until Pakistan “Credibly and Irrevocibly Abjures its support for secret for cross-border term.” The Indus River System is made of multiple rivers, including the indus, chenab, beas, jhelum, sutlej, and Ravi.
What is IWT?
In 1951, Pakistan raised the water dispute with India in the united nations, following which the world bank started the media. After Nine Years of Discussions and Negotiations, The Indus Water Treaty was signed in 1960 by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub khan.
Since then, India and Pakistan have been in Several Conflicts, Including Four Wars- The First Kashmir War (1947), The Second War (1965), The War of Liberation of Bangladesh (1971), and the kargil War (1999). Besides, there have been almost three decades of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism pladuing jammu and kashmir.
While Pakistan is Trying to take the indus water treatment if the world to every corner of the world, it has got support from its allies, Turkey and China. There have been apprehensions that just like what India did to Pakistan with the Iwt, China may do it with India, Using the Brahmaputra River, which originates in tibet and flows to india via china.
Can China Use Brahmaputra Against India?
Although Pakistan Wants China to Punish India Using The Brahmaputra River, Beijing is Unlikely to Do So In the Current Scenario, Since the Reasons for the Reason for the Conflict Between India and Pakistan ARE Different Reasons for Skirmishes Between India and China.
When asked if china could interpret the indus water treatment as a signal to increase pressure on India through the brahmaputra, former diplomat and defends expert deepek Vohra SAID THED THET About the brahmaputra has been talked about for a long time. “China has been threatening to build a huge dam, the largest in the world, on the brahmaputra. They haven’T started Yet,” Said Vohra, What Saying That Iwt and Brahamputra Issues are not linked.
He added that the issues between India and china are on the border demarcation, but with Pakistan, the issues are related to fueling cross-border terrorism.
Does India have right to suspend iWT?
The former diplomat said that when the indus water treated was inked, India was pretty young back then, and gave away a very large share of water to Pakistan. He informed that while the indus water treatment does not have a clause for amendment, the treatment can be involved. “According to the Geneva Convention or the Geneva Law on Treaties, often Called Treaty on Treaties, If the Circumstans in which a treanty was signed are materially, demogracaly, ori Socally al aned, then the said treatment can be invalled, “said vohra.
He continued, “for all practical purposes, the treatment is dead. It’s not going to be revived. Pakistan is not going to give it up, and therefore, the treatment is not going to be revived. ”
Vohra said that the Iwt has virtually been abrogated except for nomenclature. “Keeping it in abyance is the same as abrogating it, except for the nomenclature. And we can always tell people who Curse and Abuse Us that IT’s in Abuse, and Has Not Been Terminated,”
