India: Crucial Water Treaty With Pakistan Needs Mutual Trust
September 24, 2016
With tensions between India and Pakistan running high over an attack on an Indian air base, New Delhi has alluded to the possibility of revisiting a crucial water agreement with Pakistan, but a high-ranking U.N. official cautioned against getting caught up in “water-war rhetoric.”
Under the 1960 treaty, Pakistan has the right to use water from three Himalayan rivers in the west that…