Pakistan flags India’s brazen violations of Indus Waters Treaty in letter to UNSC president
United Nations: Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to take notice of India’s brazen violations of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), warning that New Delhi’s actions pose serious risks to Pakistan’s water security, regional stability and international peace.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad delivered a letter from Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar to the president of the UNSC, Ambassador Leonor Zalabata Torres of Colombia, drawing attention to India’s violations of the 1960 World Bank–brokered Indus Waters Treaty.
In a post on the social media platform X, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar said the letter “draws urgent attention of the UNSC to two illegal Indian infrastructure projects linked to Chenab River system aimed at water diversion, which reveal India’s intention to illegally alter the treaty-governed flow and use of the Western rivers, weaponising water with dangerous implications for Pakistan’s water, food, and economic security as well as regional stability and international peace and security”.
He said that the UNSC was urged to take cognizance of this “fragile and deteriorating situation and hold India accountable for its brazen violations”.
Separately, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar also briefed the Security Council President on the broader situation in South Asia, including India’s continued non-compliance with UN Security Council resolutions on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
Earlier on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar had warned that India was pursuing at least 17 projects aimed at significantly altering the Indus River system, cautioning that such steps could enable New Delhi to establish “hydro-hegemony” in the region. He made these remarks in a recorded keynote address at a seminar titled “Transboundary Water Resources: A Weaponised Global Common,” jointly organized by Pakistan’s Embassy in Brussels and the Centre for European Policy Studies.
