Pakistan on Thursday (January 8, 2026) said that it would take up with India at the political and diplomatic level any development activity by New Delhi on the western rivers in violation of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT).
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.
Pakistan accuses India of attempting to undermine Indus 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.
