Pakistan to take up with India any development activity in violation of IWT: Foreign Office

Key Highlights

• During the weekly media briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi also said that the IWT remains a binding international instrument and there is no provision for abeyance of the treaty.
• A day after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 last year, India took a series of punitive measures against Pakistan that included putting the IWT of 1960 in "abeyance".
• The IWT, brokered by the World Bank, has governed the distribution and use of the Indus River and its tributaries between India and Pakistan since 1960.
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• Andrabi said any project built on the Chenab, Jhelum and Neelam is subject to scrutiny under the IWT and “our Indus Water Commissioner has written on certain projects on Chenab River”.