India/Pakistan: Delhi Returns to the Table after Water War Threats

Mar 16, 2017 | Express Tribune
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Pakistan and India are set to resume stalled water-sharing talks later this month under a 1960 treaty that the Indian prime minister had threatened to scrap blaming Islamabad of promoting terrorism in the region. Late last year, Narendra Modi had threatened to scrap the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in an attempt to ratchet up pressure on Pakistan after accusing the country of being behind a deadly militant attack on a military base in Uri, in the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir.