Pakistan’s agriculture and energy production may be impacted by India’s historic move to revoke the Indus Water Treaty, a long-standing water-sharing agreement, in response to a recent incident in Kashmir, especially as the region enters the extreme pre-monsoon heat, according to a Bloomberg article.
Since India does not yet have the infrastructure to drastically alter water flows, experts in both agriculture and diplomacy think the impacts might not be felt right away, according to The News. Pakistan, however, has denounced the action, claiming it violates the 1960 agreement, which forbids unilateral changes to the treaty.
According to Syed Imran Ahmed, “there is a protocol in the treaty, an arbitration code, and there are guarantors” like the UN and the World Bank that mediate any dispute between the two nations.
