New Delhi: India has for the first time issued a notice to Pakistan, seeking a review and modification of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), in view of Islamabad’s “intransigence” to comply with the dispute redressal mechanism of the pact that was signed more than six decades ago for matters relating to cross-border rivers, government sources said on Friday.
The notice, sent by India’s Indus water commissioner to his Pakistani counterpart on January 25 under the provisions of the pact, seeks Islamabad’s response within 90 days for inter-governmental negotiations to “rectify the material breach” of the IWT.
Government sources said India’s call for the review and modification of the pact is not specific to the dispute resolution mechanism only, and that the negotiations could cover various other provisions of the pact, based on the experiences gained over the last 62 years.
