The court states that India is still obliged by the treaty, while India argues that the court has no right to tell it so.
India and Pakistan are not merely disputing the way in which water should be divided between them anymore; they are now arguing about whether or not the legal system that oversees one of the world’s most politically sensitive networks of rivers still has any authority.
On 31st August the Court of Arbitration in The Hague decided that the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty is still in full force, even though India had last year placed the agreement in “abeyance”. The court also put in place temporary limitations on construction at India’s Ratle Hydroelectric Plant on the Chenab River.
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