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Pakistan connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) said that it would instrumentality up with India astatine the governmental and diplomatic level immoderate improvement enactment by New Delhi connected the occidental rivers successful usurpation of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT).
During the play media briefing successful Islamabad, Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi besides said that the IWT remains a binding planetary instrumentality and determination is nary proviso for abeyance of the treaty.
A time aft the Pahalgam panic onslaught connected April 22 past year, India took a bid of punitive measures against Pakistan that included putting the IWT of 1960 successful "abeyance".
The IWT, brokered by the World Bank, has governed the organisation and usage of the Indus River and its tributaries betwixt India and Pakistan since 1960.
Mr. Andrabi said immoderate task built connected the Chenab, Jhelum and Neelam is taxable to scrutiny nether the IWT and “our Indus Water Commissioner has written connected definite projects connected Chenab River”.
“If determination are immoderate developments upstream connected Jhelum and Neelam, we would evidently beryllium taking it up with India, astatine the level of the Indus Commissioner. We whitethorn besides rise it astatine the political/diplomatic level, with India and astatine applicable planetary forums,” helium said.
Mr. Andrabi besides rejected arsenic "irresponsible and misleading" External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's remarks that Pakistan was moving grooming camps for decades to enactment terrorism.
“Once again, India has sought to deflect attraction from its ain profoundly troubling grounds arsenic a neighbour,” helium said.
“For smaller states successful the region, India, too, has been a root of coercion alternatively than cooperation, portion minorities wrong its borders look escalating intimidation and repression” the spokesperson alleged.
To a question astir the demolition of structures adjacent a mosque successful Delhi, helium said that Pakistan noted the development. He alleged that the demolition was not an isolated incidental but a "very systemic and deliberate campaign."
Talking astir Afghanistan, Mr. Andrabi said that Pakistan and China agreed to proceed leveraging the trilateral mechanism, which included Afghanistan and the past gathering was held successful August.
He said that Pakistan does not person immoderate bilateral contented with Afghanistan, but this 1 large contented of coercion emanating from Afghanistan. He demanded written assurances from Afghanistan to halt militancy and “then committedness to fulfill it”.
He besides said that the Pakistan, Bangladesh and China trilateral mechanics gathering took spot past twelvemonth astatine the level of the vice curate and overseas secretaries and “we thin to travel it and we look guardant to affirmative outcomes, beforehand practice regionally and sub-regionally”.
