India, May 16 -- PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti doubled down on her stance over the Indus Waters Treaty and said her party never supported scrapping it as it would increase regional tensions with Pakistan.

Mehbooba Mufti's statement comes after a duel with Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah over the Tulbul Navigation Project and the now-suspended treaty, which the NC leader once described as the "most unfair document" to the people of J&K.

She was responding to Omar Abdullah who took an indirect dig at Mehbooba Mufti by posting media reports with caption, "Just leaving this out there because "consistency" is in such short supply."

The former chief minister also raised questions at those hailing the suspension of the treaty. "But ...