INDUS WATER TREATY: NEED FOR REVIEW

This paper examines the history and provisions of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) that was signed by India and Pakistan in 1960. The significance and drawbacks of the Treaty for both signatories have been highlighted and the shortcomings which were inherent in the Treaty as well as those which commenced and developed with the passage of time have been underlined. In this respect the complications arose with the planned Indian projects on the Indus Basin rivers have alsobeen outlined. In the context of the necessities of suggested changes in the IWT such major aspects have been proposed which need to be looked out during the review of the IWT.