'Indus Water Treaty outdated': India to Pakistan at UN

📌 Summary:

• Exercising its right of reply at the UN Interactive Dialogue on the High Commissioner's annual report, India (First Secretary Anupama Singh) called the 66-year-old Indus Water Treaty "outdated" and said it "defies logic" for a state that "exports terror as an instrument of policy" to demand the treaty's privileges
• India called Pakistan a "living example of a Frankenstein state" shocked when its own terror "monster bites back", and rejected as "baseless" the references to J&K by Pakistan and the OIC
• Reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir "was, is and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India" and that the only unresolved issue is Pakistan's illegal occupation of Indian territory (PoJK) and its return
• Highlighted repression in PoJK: a June 14 security operation in Rawalakot left at least two dead and many injured; earlier clashes killed at least 20, amid the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) movement over economic hardship, disenfranchisement and curbs on civil liberties
• Accused Pakistan's sitting defence minister of "boasting of hosting, training and deploying terrorists as state policy"

🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS2 IR — India-Pakistan relations, India at multilateral fora (UN/UNHRC), cross-border terrorism, and the Indus Waters Treaty as a strategic-diplomatic lever.

📝 Prelims Facts:

• Indus Waters Treaty signed in 1960 (brokered by the World Bank); covers the Indus river system
• OIC = Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
• India spoke during the Interactive Dialogue on the UN High Commissioner (for Human Rights)'s annual report
• PoJK = Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir; Rawalakot lies in PoJK

🔑 Key Term: Indus Waters Treaty (1960) — World Bank-brokered water-sharing pact allocating the eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) to India and the western rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) largely to Pakistan.