After Kashmir attack leaves 26 dead, India revokes key treaty, tells Pakistani nationals to leave
CBSN
New Delhi – A day after 26 people were killed and many others injured in an attack by suspected Pakistan-based militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir, India announced it will put a key river water sharing agreement on hold.
India's External Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday night that the Indus Water Treaty "will be held in abeyance with immediate effect, until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism." The suspension of the 1960 World Bank-brokered treaty would mean India would stop the water supply of Indus River and its tributaries – the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Satluj – to Pakistan, impacting millions of people in that country
The decisions were taken by India's Cabinet Committee on Security, the country's top defense decision making body headed by the Prime Minister.
