ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Friday India was no longer sharing river-water information in the same detail as in previous years, pointing out that New Delhi should use the official channels under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and comply with all its provisions.
The IWT, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, divides control of the Indus basin rivers between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
India said in April it would hold the treaty “in abeyance” after a gun attack in Indian-administered Kashmir killed more than 26 tourists, an assault it blamed on Pakistan.
Islamabad denied any involvement and called New Delhi’s suspension of the pact illegal and “an act of war.”
“Indian side has indeed shared some information about the floods in different rivers through diplomatic channels,” foreign office spokesperson Shafqat Ai Khan told reporters at his weekly briefing. “However, it is not as detailed as it was in the past.”
