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Pakistan writes again, offers to renew talks on Indus Waters Treaty; India not ready to engage yet • June 7, 2025, 9:19 AM ET (The Indian Express)
Pakistan too sends delegations abroad to present its case • June 3, 2025, 4:28 AM ET (The Hindu)
Top news of the day: May 31, 2025 • May 31, 2025, 7:16 AM ET (The Hindu)
Pakistan PM Sharif rakes up India’s abeyance of Indus Waters Treaty at international platform • May 30, 2025, 5:06 AM ET (The Hindu)
Major infrastructure projects needed to hold Indus waters, says legal expert • May 27, 2025, 9:29 AM ET (The Hindu)

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Date September 19, 1960
Participants India • Pakistan
Context Indus River • Inter-Dominion Accord

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Indus River
Indus River in Gilgit-Baltistan
Two distressed people sit amid ruins; behind them is a partitioned, color-coded map of India overlaid on destroyed urban buildings.
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Key People

Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
prime minister of India
Mohammad Ayub Khan
Mohammad Ayub Khan
president of Pakistan
David E. Lilienthal
American businessman
Eugene Robert Black
American financier