Goa, June 3 -- Amid escalating Indo-Pak tensions following India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty in April 2025, Pakistan's senior aide Rana Ihsaan Afzal suggested that China might retaliate by halting the flow of the Brahmaputra river into India. This claim sparked swift rebuttals from Indian officials, with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma dismissing it as a "manufactured threat" and a scare tactic by Islamabad.

Sarma clarified that only about 30-35% of the Brahmaputra's flow originates from China, primarily from glacial melt and limited rainfall in Tibet. The majority-65-70%-is generated within India itself through heavy monsoon rains across Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, and Meghalaya, as well as significant tribu...