New Delhi, June 9 -- Following India's decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty after the deadly Pahalgam terror attack, a Pakistani government report has shown a 13.3 percent year-on-year shortfall in water drawn from the river and supplied to already water-starved farms in the Punjab province.

The report by Pakistan's Indus River System Authority said 124,500 cusecs were released from the Indus basin to dams on June 5, compared to the nearly 144,000 cusecs this time last year, media reports said.

The shortfall will affect the sowing of Kharif, or monsoonal, crops, according to experts.

"In Pakistan, there is less water in rivers and reservoirs connected to the Indus River System, because of which farmers there are in a crisis. The...