NEW DELHI: Simply days after India rejected a global tribunal’s ruling on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and dismissed its jurisdiction, Pakistan on Wednesday urged New Delhi to interact “constructively” inside the framework of the 1960 water-sharing settlement.In accordance with information company PTI, Pakistan overseas workplace spokesperson Tahir Andrabi stated the Everlasting Court docket of Arbitration had reaffirmed that the treaty remained absolutely enforced and binding. Pakistan, he stated, would take “all attainable measures” to make sure the choice was applied.Andrabi stated Pakistan remained dedicated to implementing the treaty in letter and spirit in accordance with its language and provisions.Pakistan will proceed to induce India to reciprocate with the identical method whereby the treaty is upheld in letter and spirit and in its full authorized documented provisions, he stated, in accordance with PTI.Pakistan had approached the Everlasting Court docket of Arbitration in The Hague in March 2026, in search of a dedication on the standing of the treaty after India positioned it in abeyance.
India rejects tribunal ruling
India, nonetheless, has persistently rejected the jurisdiction of the arbitration course of.On Monday, the ministry of exterior affairs (MEA) stated, “India categorically rejects its so-called award, simply because it has firmly rejected all prior pronouncements by this illegally constituted physique.”“India’s choice to carry the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance stays in pressure,” the ministry stated.MEA stated the Court docket of Arbitration had issued what it termed an award on Could 15, 2026, regarding most pondage supplemental to an earlier award on problems with basic interpretation of the IWT.“This so-called Court docket was constituted by the World Financial institution in patent breach of the phrases of the Treaty and India categorically rejects its so-called award, simply because it has firmly rejected all prior pronouncements by this illegally constituted physique”, the ministry acknowledged.India has maintained that the institution of the arbitral physique itself violates the IWT and that it has no jurisdiction over India’s sovereign choice to position the treaty in abeyance.
Water, terrorism and the SCO
The dispute additionally featured not directly on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, in Bishkek, the place Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to as for motion towards nations that use terrorism as an instrument of state coverage.“We can not stay confined to an action-reaction method,” Modi stated, calling for the dismantling of terrorist ecosystems, together with funding networks, recruitment pipelines and territorial sanctuaries.Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, talking on the summit, described water because the area’s “lifeblood” and stated it “mustn’t ever be weaponised”.“The treaties governing our shared waters are solemn, binding worldwide commitments. They don’t seem to be issues of political comfort to be solid apart at your will. They should be honoured unconditionally, in each letter and spirit,” Sharif stated, in accordance with Daybreak.India positioned the IWT in abeyance following the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam terror assault, through which 26 individuals had been killed. The Cupboard Committee on Safety took the choice on April 23, 2025, with New Delhi saying the circumstances underlying the treaty had essentially modified.India has stated the treaty will stay in abeyance till Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably abjures its assist for cross-border terrorism”.
