Overview
- Pakistan’s foreign minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, told a Brussels seminar on Thursday that at least 17 Indian projects — including new reservoirs, expansions and diversion schemes on the Indus, Chenab and Ravi — are designed to change the river system and give New Delhi control over downstream flows.
- Pakistan delivered a letter to the UN Security Council on Friday that cites two Chenab-linked infrastructure projects and asks the council to take notice of what Islamabad calls treaty violations and deliberate water diversion.
- Islamabad describes the projects as the 'weaponisation' of water and warns they could damage Pakistan’s agriculture, hydropower output and the livelihoods of millions who rely on the Indus basin.
- Pakistan says the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty remains the correct legal framework and has urged resolution through the treaty’s mechanisms, dialogue and international law rather than unilateral action.
- India placed the treaty in abeyance after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack, Pakistan cites past arbitration limits on India’s upstream control, and concrete multilateral adjudication or United Nations action on the new complaints is still pending.