{"id":34553,"date":"2026-01-05T00:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34553"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:04:24","slug":"indias-iwt-abeyance-claim-has-no-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34553","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;India&#8217;s IWT abeyance claim has no standing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pakistan&#8217;s Commissioner for Indus Waters Mehar Ali Shah on Sunday rejected India&#8217;s claim of putting the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) &#8220;in abeyance&#8221;, saying the treaty remains fully valid under international law.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed these views during a progamme on a private TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as holding the treaty in abeyance is concerned, the word &#8216;abeyance&#8217; is not recognised under international treaty law. It is a coined term, because we believe India understands that it cannot suspend, breach or terminate the treaty,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that India&#8217;s ongoing refusal to cooperate within the rules-based framework was &#8220;alarming&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Commissioner for Indus Waters Mehar Ali Shah on Sunday rejected India&#8217;s claim of putting the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) &#8220;in abeyance&#8221;, saying the treaty remains fully valid under international law. He expressed these views during a progamme on a private TV channel. &#8220;As far as holding the treaty in abeyance is concerned, the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}