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Can Climate Break the Ice for India and Pakistan?
November 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at how climate and water issues could bring a change in bilateral relations between India and Pakistan: Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s visit to Islamabad for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit last month was the most high profile Indian diplomatic engagement in Pakistan since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise pit-stop in […]
Read more »Parting The Waters: India vs. Pakistan
October 12th, 2024
Via the Lowy Institute, commentary on efforts to modify the Indus Water Treaty: On 30 August, India asked Pakistan to modify the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), a long-standing agreement that allocates the waters of the Indus Basin equally between these two often hostile neighbours. It was the fourth such request since January 2023. The IWT is regarded […]
Read more »Securing Indus Waters Rights
July 10th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on Indus River water tensions: The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) based in The Hague has declared that they have the jurisdiction to preside over the Pakistan-India conflict over the contentious Kishanganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in the territory of Kashmir. This decision raises one of the oldest and most profound […]
Read more »India and Pakistan Can Future-Proof Their Threatened Rivers
May 29th, 2024
Via OneWater, a look at how India and Pakistan can future-proof their threatened rivers: > India has signalled its intention to re-negotiate the Indus Water Treaty > Climate change has profoundly impacted the rivers governed by the Treaty > To future-proof their rivers, leaders in India and Pakistan will need to shape a different approach […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India, Pakistan, and the Politics of the Indus River
February 23rd, 2024
Via Harvard’s Mittal South Asia Institute, commentary on the politics of the Indus River: The Mittal Institute’s Syed Babar Ali Fellow, Muhammad Imran Mehsud comes to Cambridge from Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan, where he is an Assistant Professor of International Relations. He is an expert on South Asian transboundary hydropolitics and his research project at the […]
Read more »Can India and Pakistan’s Historic Water Pact Endure?
September 26th, 2023
Via F0reign Policy, an article on the Indus Waters Treaty – which was created to avoid conflict – but, to confront the climate crisis, it must evolve: Since 1960, a treaty brokered by the World Bank has prevented a water war between pugnacious neighbors India and Pakistan—even as the two countries have gone to war […]
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