Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday said that the next phase of Neutral Expert proceedings under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) will take place in Vienna next week.

The IWT, brokered by the World Bank, has governed the distribution and use of the Indus River and its tributaries between India and Pakistan since 1960.

India suspended the IWT after 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam by Pakistan terrorists on April 22.

On September 19, Pakistan initiated an arbitration against India under the provisions of the IWT.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Foreign Office said that Pakistan has taken note of the recent decision of the Court of Arbitration, which has offered “helpful clarification” on certain aspects of the Court’s ‘Award on Issues of General Interpr

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