Shehbaz Sharif raises waters treaty at UN, no mention of anti-terror efforts

“India’s unilateral and illegal attempt to hold the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance defies the provisions of the treaty itself as well as the norms of International law. Pakistan has made it abundantly clear that we will defend the inseparable right of our people on these waters. To us, any violation of the treaty represents an act of war,” Sharif said.

India put the treaty on abeyance as one of the counter-measures against Pakistan's cross-border terrorism efforts after 26 people were killed in the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

The Indus Waters Treaty, brokered by the World Bank and signed in September 1960, divided control of the rivers between India and Pakistan, giving India the eastern rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, and Pakistan the western rivers Indus, Jhelum and Chenab.