India, April 24 -- India's decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty in the wake of the recent Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives, has drawn sharp reaction from Islamabad, with a senior Pakistani minister calling the move an act of "water warfare".

"India's reckless suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty is an act of water warfare; a cowardly, illegal move," Pakistan's power minister Awais Lekhari said in a post on X late on Wednesday night.

The decades-old treaty, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, has long been considered one of the few stable agreements between India and Pakistan, the nuclear-armed neighbours who share a rocky history.

Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri on Wednesday said a cabinet committee on secur...