Amit Shah calls meeting to discuss future action on Indus Waters Treaty ‘abeyance’

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan in key meeting on Friday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a key meeting on Friday (April 25, 2025) to discuss the future course of action on the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 with Pakistan, which has been kept ‘in abeyance’, sources said.

Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Paatil and senior officials of several ministries will take part in the meeting, sources said.

The meeting is expected to discuss the future course of action and how to implement the decision of keeping the treaty in abeyance, they said.

India has already informed Pakistan of its decision to keep the Indus Waters Treaty ‘in abeyance’ with immediate effect, saying Pakistan has breached its conditions.

India's Water Resources Secretary Debashree Mukherjee said in a letter addressed to her Pakistani counterpart, Syed Ali Murtaza, that sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting Jammu and Kashmir impedes India's rights under the Indus Waters Treaty.

"The obligation to honour a treaty in good faith is fundamental to a treaty. However, what we have seen instead is sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir," the letter read.

India's decision to suspend the decades-old treaty follows the killing of 26 people, mostly tourists, in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on Tuesday.