New Delhi, May 13 -- India will keep "Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures support for cross-border terrorism", Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Tuesday. India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty on 23 April 2025, following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which resulted in the death of 26 civilians.

The Indus Waters Treaty, a water-sharing agreement signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan and brokered by the World Bank, allocates the waters of the six rivers of the Indus basin between the two countries. Under the treaty, India was granted control over the eastern rivers -Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej -while Pakistan received rights over the we...