Remarking that typically disasters can show to be blessings in disguise, stating, “aapda mein bhi avsar,” Khattar defined that following the Pahalgam terror assault, the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan was “suspended.”
“The big amount of water that was discharged in direction of Pakistan will now be introduced and provided to Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan within the coming one or one and a half years,” the minister mentioned, addressing a programme to launch the drainage grasp plan of the nationwide capital.
India determined to droop the decades-old treaty in response to the phobia assault in Pahalgam in April, which resulted within the deaths of 26 individuals, largely vacationers. India knowledgeable Pakistan of its choice to maintain the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, citing Pakistan's breach of the treaty's situations.
The treaty, in impact since 1960, ruled the distribution and use of the Indus River and its tributaries between India and Pakistan. The Indus river system contains the primary river, the Indus, together with its tributaries: the Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Jhelum, and Chenab.
Underneath the treaty, India was granted unique rights to the water of the Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi — amounting to a mean annual stream of about 33 million acre-feet (MAF).
The water of the western rivers — the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab — amounting to a mean annual stream of round 135 MAF, which was largely allotted to Pakistan, has now been stopped and is offered for use by India.