Srinagar: As India put the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 ‘in abeyance’, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah called the treaty as the most unfair document to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The government of India has taken some steps. As far as J&K is concerned let us be honest, we have never been in favor of the Indus water treaty,” Omar Abdullah told reporters in Srinagar.
“We have always believed that the Indus Water Treaty is the most unfair document to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.”
On Wednesday, India decided to halt the 1960 water-sharing pact, a day after terrorists killed 25 tourists and one local in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam. A day later Pakistan called the suspension of Indus Water Treaty “an act of war.”
The Indus Water Treaty was signed in 1960 by then-PM Jawaharlal Nehru and the then-Pakistan president Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan. Under the treaty’s provisions, while India was granted unrestricted access to the water from the ‘Eastern Rivers’ — the Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi — Pakistan retained rights to the water from the ‘Western Rivers,’ including the Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab.
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