NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India shared a warning on possible cross-border flooding with neighbour Pakistan on “humanitarian grounds” and not under the water-sharing Indus Waters Treaty between the old enemies, an Indian government source told Reuters on Monday.

India’s high commission in Islamabad shared the warning on Sunday, the source said, following heavy rains in the Jammu and Kashmir region bordering Pakistan. India’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The source declined to be named as they are not authorised to speak to the media.

India put the Indus treaty in “abeyance” in April after linking a deadly attack on Hindu tourists in Kashmir to Pakistan. The tensions escalated in May to the worst military clash between the nuclear-armed rivals in decad

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