Guwahati, June 7 -- Pakistani authorities have made multiple appeals to India since April, requesting a review of the decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty in response to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, which left 26 civilians dead.

The treaty, in place since 1960, was put in abeyance by India as part of a series of punitive measures following the attack, with New Delhi stating that Pakistan must "credibly and irrevocably abjure its support for cross-border terrorism" for the treaty to be reinstated.

According to people familiar with the matter, Pakistan's water resources secretary Syed Ali Murtaza has sent four letters to India's Jal Shakti Ministry urging reconsideration of the suspension. Three of these communications r...