Pakistan has termed India’s decision to illegally and unilaterally suspend the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT)

Pakistan has termed India’s decision to illegally and unilaterally suspend the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), aiming to impede the flow of water guaranteed to Pakistan under the Treaty, as a grave violation of international law, including human rights law, the treaty law and customary international law. DPR Ambassador Usman Jadoon delivered Pakistan’s statement at the Arria Formula meeting on Protecting Water in Armed Conflict. He said that troubling pronouncements by Indian leadership to “starve the people of Pakistan” depict a highly dangerous and perverse thinking. The Pakistan Deputy UN Ambassador said that we strongly condemn India’s unlawful announcement to hold the Treaty in abeyance and call upon India to strictly abide by its legal obligations and refrain from stopping, diverting or restricting rivers that are a lifeline for 240 million people of Pakistan. We will never accept any such moves.