Pakistan writes 4 letters to India, and requests them to reconsider the decision to suspend the Treaty of Indus Waters | Today news

Pakistani authorities have written letters to their Indian peers several times since April to reconsider the decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, sources said on Friday. India has its decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 on April 23 with Pakistan -a day after at least 26 people died in the Pahalgam terror attack. The Foreign Ministry then said that the Indus Waters Treaty will be kept in “Abeyance” until Pakistan irreversibly ends its support for borderline terrorism. More than a month later, the Hindustan Times reported that the secretary of water resources, Syed Ali Murtaza, of Pakistan, has sent four letters to Indian Ministry of Jal Shakti, since reviewing the decision to suspend the Treaty. It was not immediately clear when the letters were sent, but a person who is aware of the case said three of the letters were written after Operation Sindoor, the report added. Sources told the Hindustan Times that the Pakistani team continued to claim that the treaty could not be unilaterally suspended by India and that the suspension was in violation of the terms of the Treaty. It is said that the letters an answer to a formal notice on April 24 of the Indian Secretary of Water Sources, Debashree Mukherjee, to her Pakistani counterpart on the decision to maintain the treaty. Mukherjee reportedly wrote: “However, the obligation to honor a treaty in good faith is fundamental to a treaty. However, what we have seen is sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan that targets the Indian Union area of ​​Jammu and Kashmir.” So far, there is no response to India to Pakistan’s letters. However, sources have claimed that India remains “determined by its decision.” The spokesman for Foreign Ministry, Randhir Jaiswal, reiterated on April 29 that the country would not talk to Pakistan before the neighbor would “trustfully and irrevocably upset the cross -border terrorism.” According to the report, the Indian side stopped to share all information regarding the flow of the western rivers – Indus, Jhelum and Chenab – assigned to Pakistan under the 1960 Treaty. Pakistani leaders said earlier that any reduction of water flow allowed under the Indus Waters Treaty will be seen as a ‘war weather’. The Indus Waters Treaty has survived four wars between India and Pakistan since the signing in 1960, making it the first time the treaty has been suspended.