{"id":1261,"date":"2026-06-11T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:30:38","slug":"india-actively-working-to-deprive-pakistan-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/india-actively-working-to-deprive-pakistan-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"India \u2018actively working\u2019 to deprive Pakistan of water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEW DELHI<\/strong>: India is working to ensure \u201cnot a single drop of water\u201d will flow into neighbouring Pakistan, the water minister has said, after New Delhi put the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) into abeyance following the Pahalgam attack in April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years,\u201d Minister of Water CR Patil told India\u2019s ANI news agency late Tuesday. Patil, speaking in Hindi, said that India is \u201cactively working on it\u201d after \u201cdirectives\u201d from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treaty governs the use of water from six rivers, whose headwaters originate in India but flow into Pakistan as part of the Indus basin \u2014 a resource relied on by hundreds of millions. The Indus cuts through ultra-sensitive demarcation lines between India and Pakistan in contested, Muslim-majority Kashmir \u2014 a Himalayan territory both countries claim in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian water minister says working to ensure \u2018not a single drop of water\u2019 flows downstream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India in May 2025 suspended its IWT membership after accusing Islamabad of backing a deadly attack on tourists on the Indian side of Kashmir\u2014charges Pakistan denied. The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a four-day conflict\u2014with intense drone, missile and artillery exchanges, killing nearly 70 people on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issue of water has remained a bitter point of contention since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts say that India\u2019s existing dams do not have the capacity to block or divert water, and can only regulate timings of when it releases flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cutting flows would have serious implications for Pakistan\u2019s agriculture and overall economy, but any project would take several years before it has an impact. An official in the Indian-held Kashmir said that any work would \u201cnot be possible to start before mid-2027\u201d, and would take at least five years to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan has previously said it would consider any attempt to change the flow of cross-border waterways as an \u201cact of war\u201d, saying the 1960 treaty remained in force as there was no mechanism to unilaterally withdraw from it. It had also urged the UN Security Council to take up the dispute over the IWT, warning that India\u2019s continued unilateral suspension of the treaty carries \u201cgrave peace and security, and humanitarian consequences\u201d for South Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India is working to ensure \u201cnot a single drop of water\u201d will flow into neighbouring Pakistan, the water minister has said, after New Delhi put the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) into abeyance following the Pahalgam attack in April 2025. \u201cIt is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[27],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","category-national","category-pakisstan"],"authors":[{"term_id":27,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"afnanwasif","display_name":"Web Desk","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbec8328241e98fefcd32e00f20f7a6b502086a0b95d395db4b1565c51681914?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Web","last_name":"Desk","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}