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Indus Water Treaty

Neighborhood News Digest – 06 April 2023

Afghanistan

Taliban order bars Afghan women from working with UN – UN News

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued an order banning women nationals who are UN staff members from continuing to work, the UN spokesperson sa....

April 06, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , Russia , Bangladesh elections , Afghanistan , Bhutan , India-Nepal , Saudi Arabia , Taliban , Indus Water Treaty , Imran Khan , Tajikistan , World Bank , Women , UN , India-Bangladesh , India-Bhutan , Punjab elections , Bhutan Economy , India-Sri Lanka , Pakistan exports , EVM , Power Summit India-Myanmar , Mekong River , Anti-Terrorism Bill

Neighborhood News Digest – 03 February 2023

Afghanistan

Taliban welcome India’s funds announcement for Afghanistan in Budget 2023-24 – Wion News

Taliban welcomed the Indian announcement for Afghanistan in the Union Budget 2023-24, which was presented on Wednesday by Fi....

February 03, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Nepal , ASEAN , West Bengal , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Terrorism , Bhutan , sanctions , Af-Pak , Bangladesh , Corruption , Taliban , Indus Water Treaty , EU , energy , Tourism , COVID-19 , refugees , IMF , UN , Pakistan Economy , Economic crisis , Human Rights , Independence Day , TTP , Military Coup , India-Maldives , Adani , India-Myanmar , RSP , Martial Law , Tamil-13A

Pakistani Estimates of the Eastern River Water Flows

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

It may be recalled that the Indus Water Treaty, 1960 (IWT) between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World bank, allocated three rivers each, known as the Eastern Rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) to India, and the Western Rivers (Indus, Chenab, Jhelum) ....

April 04, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Indus Water Treaty , Eastern Rivers , India-Pakistan relations , water usage

Indus Water Treaty: An Appraisal

Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

… a Task Force to review the IWT is a good move and hopefully it will help India in creating adequate water management infrastructure in a time bound manner so that she is able to utilise all the waters that she is entitled to harness. The unendin....

December 06, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Indus Water Treaty , River-water management

Indus Commissioners Meeting at Lahore: Need for a New Approach to Indus Waters Treaty

Gautam Sen Commentary

India and Pakistan have just concluded their 115th Indus Commissioners` meeting at Lahore. The meeting involving technical discussions, was successful to the extent that the structured dialogue process within the provisions of the Indus Water Treaty ....

September 11, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Indus Water Treaty , Indus Commissioners` meeting Lahore

Dealing with Pakistan – Indus Water Treaty, the Most Favoured Nation Status and Cross Border Terrorism

Rajesh Singh

The surgical strikes that the Indian Armed Forces carried out on the other side of the Line of Control (LoC) late September, so effectively seized the national consciousness that they displaced the other important options being discuss....

November 05, 2016 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Policies & Perspectives , Terrorism , Indus Water Treaty , Most Favoured Nation Status , Indo-Pakistan confrontation , Tulbul , Wular Lake