Pakistan asks India to resume operations under IWT

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called on India to immediately resume the normal functioning of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), which it has held in abeyance since May, and to fully and faithfully honour its treaty obligations after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued a “supplemental award” in the case.

“In a supplemental award announced on June 27 2025, the Court hearing the Pakistan-India dispute over Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects has found that its competence remains intact, and that it has a continuing responsibility to advance these proceedings in a timely, efficient, and fair manner,” the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement.

“The Court of Arbitration decided to announce this supplemental award in the wake of India’s illegal and unilateral announcement to hold the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance,” it added. The FO added that the award “vindicates Pakistan’s position that the Indus Waters Treaty remains valid and operational, and that India has no right to take unilateral action about it”.

Following the killing of 26 people in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in April, India held the treaty with Pakistan in abeyance. New Delhi accuses Islamabad of orchestrating the deadly militant attack, an allegation that Pakistan denies.

On the basis of these baseless allegations, India started the war against Pakistan last month, which was the heaviest fighting to have occurred between the two neighbouring nations in deca