Pakistan busts India’s IWT narrative, warns against weaponising transboundary rivers

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, has rejected India’s portrayal of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) as an asymmetric arrangement, accusing New Delhi of distorting the agreement’s history, structure, and purpose in an opinion piece published in Newsweek. “India has been advancing this narrative with increasing frequency since its unlawful pronouncement in April 2025 to hold the Treaty ‘in abeyance.’ It appears intended to retrospectively justify a unilateral action that finds no basis either in the Treaty itself or in international law,” Sheikh wrote in the article.