Hard choices

ONE year has passed since India decided to hold the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance. Pakistan’s National Security Council issued a warning, shortly after the Indian Cabinet Committee on Security’s decision, that any attempt to divert water flows will be regarded as an “act of war”. A year later, there are no visible signs towards the treaty’s restoration, and it remains essentially paralysed. India has expedited development on a number of controversial hydropower projects by revising compl...