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India remains unrelenting with regard to any change its decision to keep the controversial Indus Water Treaty in abeyance despite agreeing to a ceasefire.

MEA sources indicate that Pakistan may have got away with the One Billion Dollar IMF bailout and agreed to a US brokered caseation of hostilities, India has not agreed to revise its decision on stopping and regulating flow of river waters under the Indus river system.

The underlying quotation was – water and terror cannot flow together, sources added.

The DGMOs of India and Pakistan on Saturday the 10th of May 2025 agreed that both sides would stop all firing and military action on land and in the air and sea with effect from 5 pm IST.

The call to initiate the ceasefire was made by Pakistan.

It may be recalled that after Pakistan sponsored terrorists had killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam on 22nd April 2025, India had taken a series of steps that included stopping of water from five rivers under the Indus Water Treaty flowing into Pakistan.

The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan with the help of the World Bank, which is also a party to the IWT.

The Treaty allocates the Western Rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) to Pakistan and the Eastern Rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) to India.

At the same time, the Treaty allows each country to allocate certain waters of the rivers to the other.

The treaty gives India only 20 per cent of the water from the Indus River System and the remaining 80 per cent to Pakistan.