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Myth to malice

The IWT enabled the upper riparian to execute diversions.
"Blood and water can't flow together at the same time," said an anguished Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016, following the Pakistan-sponsored Uri attack in which 18 Indian soldiers were killed. He ...
A Kashmiri villager stands outside his damaged house after overnight shelling from Pakistan at Gingal village in Uri, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 9, 2025. [AP Photo/Dar Yasin] The threat of ...
ON THE INDUS RIVER, Pakistan – Pakistanis call the Indus the Father of the Rivers, the Blue Water, the Lion River. Ancient civilizations thrived around it. Shrines to Sufi and Hindu saints dot its ...
India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed at least 27 civilians. This is the first time in the treaty’s 65-year ...