On April 23, 2025, the South Asian geopolitical landscape was fundamentally altered when India unilaterally announced the abeyance of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). This drastic move followed by a false flag operation in Pahalgam which was vehemently designed to provide a pretext for hydraulic aggression. For over six decades, the treaty brokered by world […]
Abeyance
The Weaponization of Waters! Geo-political Risks & the Humanitarian Cost of Unilateral “Abeyance”
For over six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) stood as a rare beacon of conflict-resilient diplomacy in South Asia. Brokered by the World Bank in 1960, it successfully governed the sharing of the Indus basin’s six rivers through three wars and numerous standoffs. However, this foundational stability was shattered on 23 April 2025, when […]