Pakistan weighing legal options over Indus Waters Treaty

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing international legal action over India’s suspension of a key river water-sharing treaty, a government minister told Reuters, as tensions intensify between the neighbours following an attack on tourists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

Aqeel Malik, the Minister of State for Law and Justice, told Reuters that Islamabad was working on plans for at least three different legal options, including raising the issue at the World Bank -- the treaty’s facilitator, a British wire service reported. It was also considering taking action at the Permanent Court of Arbitration or at the International Court of Justice in the Hague where it could allege that India has violated the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, he said.