India, April 5 -- To have a fresh understanding of the tensions in our Jammu and Kashmir border areas, particularly the recent escalation in attacks in Jammu region, we need to relook at the Indus Water Treaty and understand if it's increasingly getting weaponized.

We need to set up fresh mechanisms that just don't talk about building dams and infrastructure but going further that deal with communities inhabiting the border and understand their relations with their geography, particularly rivers and forests. We need to relook how our river ways and forests have become weaponized because of infiltration from across the border that's increasingly embedding into them a narrative of conflict and tension.

In this heightening context of confl...