At UNSC Meet, India Slams Pakistan’s “Disinformation” on Indus Water Treaty

By A Staff Reporter 

United Nations, New York: In a strongly worded response during a UN Security Council Arria Formula meeting, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, refuted Pakistan’s allegations regarding the Indus Water Treaty, accusing the neighbouring country of spreading “disinformation” and violating the spirit of the agreement.

The meeting, organised by the Permanent Mission of Slovenia, was focused on the theme ‘Protecting Water in Armed Conflict – Protecting Civilian Lives’.

Ambassador Harish, representing India, took the opportunity to firmly rebut the narrative pushed by the Pakistani delegation. “We are constrained to respond to the disinformation being carried out by the delegation of Pakistan with regard to the Indus Water Treaty,” he said.

He emphasized that India, as the upper riparian state, has consistently acted with responsibility and good faith since the Treaty’s inception 65 years ago. “The Preamble of the Treaty describes that the Treaty was concluded ‘in a spirit of good will and friendship’. Throughout these six and a half decades, Pakistan has violated the spirit of the treaty by inflicting three wars and thousands of terror attacks on India,” he added.

Citing the heavy toll of terrorism, he stated, “In the last four decades, more than 20,000 Indian lives have been lost in terror attacks, the most recent of which was the dastardly targeted terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam last month.”