Pakistan PM Sharif raises IWT abeyance at UN: 'India's unilateral...'

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday raised the issue of abeyance of the Indus Water Treaty, accusing India of defying the provisions of the treaty. However, the Pakistanis leader did not mention Islamabad's effort to stop terrorism originating at home, a key demand that India has put forward after the Pahalgam terror attack and its decision to put the treaty on abeyance over the issue of cross-border terrorism. "India's unilateral and illegal attempt to hold the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance defies the provisions of the treaty itself as well as the norms of International law. Pakistan has made it abundantly clear that we will defend the inseparable right of our people on these waters. To us, any violation of the treaty represents an act of war," Sharif said during his addres