Indus Waters Treaty is worth preserving

Selective cooperation with Pakistan, not mindless confrontation is the way forward

On July 5, the Indian Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat was reported to have said “India is working on exercising its rights to stop excess water flowing to Pakistan, under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, to irrigate its own lands.” Indian government sources have made similar observations in the past and Pakistani officialdom has often said that India has not acted fairly in sharing waters according to this Treaty.

The awkwardly titled “Treaty between the Government of India and the Government of Pakistan concerning the most complete and satisfactory utilisation of the waters of the Indus system of