The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) was a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan, arranged and negotiated by the World Bank, to use the water available in the Indus River and its tributaries. It was signed in Karachi on 19 September 1960 by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then Pakistani president Field Marshal Ayub Khan. Following the 2025 Pahalgam Massacre on Tourists in Baisaran, Kashmir by The Resistance Front, a Lashkar e Taiba affiliated Terrorist Group, India suspended the treaty on 22 April 2025.
In response to the deadly Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives, angry protesters have gathered outside the Pakistani High..