India, May 24 -- India on Saturday lashed out at Pakistan for spreading disinformation about the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), which was suspended following the deadly terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22.

Addressing the United Nations, India's Permanent Representative, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, said the 65-year-old treaty would remain in abeyance until Pakistan, described by him as the "global epicentre of terror", ends its support for cross-border terrorism.

Harish's remarks came in response to the Pakistani representative raising the issue of the Indus Waters Treaty at the United Nations, asserting that "water is life and not a weapon of war."

India suspended the 1960 treaty on April 23, a day after the Pa...