ON 16 October 2025, United Nations Special Rapporteurs raised queries regarding India’s controversial actions contradicting the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).

India has yet to respond to the queries, despite the deadline passing more than ten weeks ago. This non-responsiveness is laced with arrogance and is rightly drawing attention from international observers who view it as reflective of a growing tendency of defiance in the Indian state’s approach toward mutually agreed methods of international scrutiny and legal accountability.

In the post-Pahalgam terrorist attack scenario, the unilateral move of the Modi-led government to hold the IWT in abeyance radiated strong signs of coercive aggression towards the people of Pakistan. Ironically, this irrational move of India had no legal justification as the treaty does not provide any sort of unilateral withdrawal mechanism. This breach of the binding obligations of the IWT has posed........

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