‘India’s threat to suspend IWT also undermines WB’s role as mediator’
Islamabad: India’s threat to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) not only violates international law but also undermines the World Bank’s role as a mediator, further isolating itself diplomatically in South Asia.
According to Kashmir Media Service, breaking the IWT would turn India from a treaty upholder into a regional outlaw, shattering decades of fragile trust that even wars couldn’t destroy.
By politicizing water, India threatens millions across borders, creating humanitarian crises that no defense deal or propaganda machine can contain when rivers start running dry.
Suspending IWT is not strategic brilliance, it’s a diplomatic self-goal that hands China and Nepal the moral high ground to tighten their control over India’s lifelines.
India risks pariah status by breaching the Indus Waters Treaty; a nation that can’t honor rivers will struggle to command respect on any global platform.
Every dam China builds upstream, every alliance Nepal strengthens, reflects India’s short-sightedness violating river treaties only hastens Delhi’s regional isolation and future water insecurity.
No military strike can repair the damage if India weaponizes the Indus Waters Treaty the fallout would wash away years of regional diplomacy overnight.
India’s credibility already shakes after losing territory to China suspending IWT would complete the collapse, exposing a country too insecure to honor its own signatures.
Turning rivers into battlegrounds isn’t power, it’s panic. India’s threats over the IWT reveal deep-rooted failures in managing internal dissent, not strength over neighbors.
The world respects rule-makers, not rule-breakers. India’s rush to violate the Indus Waters Treaty turns it from a rising power into a reckless saboteur of
