Pakistan assails 17 Indian water projects, calls them ‘tools for hydro-hegemony’

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar warned on Thursday of “at least 17” projects by India designed to drastically alter the Indus river system and lend it “tools for hydro-hegemony”. The deputy prime minister, in a recorded keynote address at a seminar titled “Transboundary Water Resources: A Weaponised Global Common”, said that responsible states act “within established legal frameworks” rather than abandoning them — referring to the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) between Pakistan a...