Pakistan Receives More River Flow, India Faces Shortfall, Says Expert

Anil Gaur highlighted a long‑standing grievance that Pakistan is allocated water beyond its genuine irrigation needs, while India struggles with a deficit that hampers its growing farms and cities.

The defence commentator said that the initial terms of the Indus Water Treaty were negotiated when both nations had vastly different water consumption patterns. Today, new tributaries feed Pakistan’s canal system, making the earlier water share appear inequitable.

Gaur urged the Indian government to push for a treaty revision that reflects present‑day water scarcity in the subcontinent. He reiterated that negotiations must be decoupled from the security environment, stating that "as long as terror is funded, the water table will not move."

He concluded by calling on Pakistan to halt support for extremist groups, signaling that only then can both countries sit at the negotiating table with a realistic water‑sharing framework.