Pakistan on April 22, Thursday urged the United Nations to call upon India to restore full implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), warning that New Delhi’s “illegal” decision to hold the accord in abeyance carried grave peace, security and humanitarian consequences for the region. It is a bilateral agreement between two nations with the UNSC playing no role in its negotiations or its end result.
As such, India is clear that the UNSC, which has failed to get Pakistan Occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK), including Gilgit-Baltistan vacated, has no role in IWT restoration either. The IWT was put in abeyance, a sort of coma, by the Indian side on April 23 last year and no doctor, other than of course the Indian government, can revive or restore it.
The development comes after the completion of one year since India placed the IWT in abeyance. This was done a day after last year’s April 22 attack in Pahalgam in which 24 Hindu males and two others were killed by Pakistan-backed terrorists.
According to a statement issued by Pakistan’s Mission to the UN, the country’s permanent representative, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, handed over the letter. It was written by Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar to the UNSC Jamal Fares Alrowaiei of Bahrain. “The letter draws the attention of the Security Council, one year after India’s illegal decision to hold the IWT in abeyance of its grave peace and security and humanitarian consequences”, the statement by...
Pakistan on April 22, Thursday urged the United Nations to call upon India to restore full implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), warning that New Delhi’s “illegal” decision to hold the ...