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Anadolu Agency (22 March 2026)

Aamir Latif 

Pakistan on Sunday urged longtime rival India to "immediately" restore the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in line with international obligations.

In a message on World Water Day, President Asif Ali Zardari reiterated Islamabad's "strong" condemnation of the unilateral suspension of the World Bank-brokered treaty by India, calling it a "deliberate weaponization of shared water resources."

"India’s decision to place the treaty in abeyance, disrupt hydrological data-sharing, impede agreed mechanisms and undermines both the letter and spirit of a long-standing international agreement that has governed equitable sharing of the Indus river system for over six decades,” he said.

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