Amid the diplomatic restraints with Pakistan following the Uri attacks, India insisted the continuity of the Indus Waters Treaty that was signed with Pakistan in 1960, relies on “mutual trust and cooperation” between India and Pakistan.
The 56-year-old Indus Waters Treaty today cropped up in the current hostile Indo-Pak discourse with India making it clear that “mutual trust and cooperation” was important for such a treaty to work.
The assertion came amid calls in India that government should scrap the water distribution pact to mount pressure on Pakistan in the aftermath of audacious Uri terror attack earlier this week.
Pressed further if India will scrap the treaty, he refused to elaborate and only noted that in diplomacy everything was not spelled out and that he has not said that the treaty was not working.