Pakistan submits letter to UNSC on India’s Indus Waters Treaty violations
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad on Friday handed over a letter from the Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, to Ambassador Leonor Zalabata Torres of Columbia, president of the Security Council for June, concerning India’s continued “illegal actions and violations” of the World Bank-brokered 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan.
According to a Pakistani mission press release, the letter drew urgent attention of the 15-member Council to the 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, weaponizing water with dangerous implications for Pakistan’s water, food, and economic security as well as regional stability and international peace and security.
The letter urged the Security Council to take cognizance of this “fragile and deteriorating situation and hold India accountable for its brazen violations”.