Pakistan has called on the United Nations Security Council to take notice of what it says are India’s attempts to alter the flow of rivers governed by the Indus Waters Treaty.
In a letter to the UNSC, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar warned that two Indian infrastructure projects on the Chenab river system are intended to divert water and could endanger Pakistan’s water, food and economic security.
The treaty has remained a source of renewed tensions since April last year, when India unilaterally suspended the agreement following a deadly attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, alleging Pakistani involvement—an accusation Islamabad has repeatedly denied.
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, said he had delivered Dar’s letter to the President of the Security Council, Leonor Zalabata Torres, urging the council to address what Pakistan described as India’s continued violations of the 1960 treaty.