India Can’t Set Aside the Indus Waters Treaty When It’s Inconvenient, Says Dar

Ishaq Dar addressing the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir at the UN General Assembly

Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday that India cannot walk away from its international obligations simply because they’ve become inconvenient. Speaking at a UN General Assembly side event, he pointed to a recent court ruling that reaffirmed the Indus Waters Treaty is still very much alive, whatever New Delhi has been saying since last year. His comment lands at a tense moment. India put the 62-year-old water-sharing agreement “in abeyance” in April 2025, and the fallout from that decision is still playing out in…

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