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India’s decision to hold the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance remains in force, the MEA said.

‘No jurisdiction’: India rejects international court’s order on Indus Water Treaty

September 01, 2026 4:52 am

India has rejected the Court of Arbitration's award, saying the tribunal has no jurisdiction and that the treaty remains in abeyance.

Indus Waters Treaty: A year on, India's case for freezing it and what it plans next

July 27, 2026 10:10 am

The IWT reflects the technological and hydrological realities of the late 1950s. More than six decades later, those circumstances have changed fundamentally.

Indus Waters Treaty: Govt focus on Chenab projects, renegotiation

Indus Waters Treaty: Government focus on Chenab projects, renegotiation

July 21, 2026 2:23 am

The Indian Express has learnt that Delhi’s key priority is the speedy completion of hydropower projects on the Chenab.

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IWT: India rejects ‘so-called’ arbitration award as ‘null and void’

May 17, 2026 4:57 am

"India categorically rejects the present so-called award, just as it has firmly rejected all prior pronouncements of the illegally constituted CoA," Randhir Jaiswal said.

At the UN, India must remain firm and unsentimental about the Indus Waters Treaty

February 17, 2026 11:51 am

For more than a decade, Pakistan has systematically used the treaty’s dispute resolution mechanisms not as instruments of clarification, but as tools of obstruction

Indus Waters Treaty: A document past its time

September 20, 2025 1:22 pm

What is needed is clear-eyed scrutiny, when challenge is climate change, not engineering rivers

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Looking at India-Pak ties through prism of Indus Treaty: insights from a new book

September 12, 2025 12:32 pm

A new book looks at the relations between India and Pakistan through the prism of the Indus Waters Treaty. What Pakistan desires is not more water, but control over flows. India ensured the Treaty survived for long; it has finally exercised the strategic advantage of the upper riparian. Here’s the bigger picture

What Nehru told Parliament on Indus Waters Treaty: ‘Not at all satisfied but… cannot quarrel indefinitely’

August 19, 2025 4:53 pm

Amidst Parliament impasse over the electoral revision exercise in Bihar, BJP president and Union minister J P Nadda slams Nehru govt over IWT, says he didn’t keep House in loop, then held a perfunctory debate

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India rejects arbitration court's IWT ruling: 'Holds no legal standing'

August 15, 2025 1:54 am

“India also categorically rejects Pakistan’s selective and misleading references to the so-called 'award',” Jaiswal said.

Mithun Chakraborty had started his comment in a soft tone: "I don't want to say anything against the country of Pakistan. People of Pakistan are good, they also don't want war." (Express File Photo)

'BrahMos chalega': Mithun Chakraborty’s fiery retort to Pakistan's Bilawal Bhutto’s ‘threat of war’ amid tensions around Indus Waters Treaty

August 12, 2025 5:56 pm

India previously suspended the treaty following a terrorist attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people on April 22. Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently announced that India would not reactivate it.