India's unilateral halt to water treaty: 4 options Pakistan can take

Experts say mediation via World Bank, direct talks with Delhi are Islamabad's choices

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India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty poses a significant economic threat to Pakistan's irrigated farming and hydropower generation. (Source photos by AP and Reuters)

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ISLAMABAD -- After military clashes between India and Pakistan broke out earlier this month -- at more than three days' duration, making them the most inflamed between the two countries in decades -- a ceasefire was agreed on May 10. But the bilateral water-sharing Indus Waters Treaty remains in abeyance, as India unilaterally suspended it on April 23, a day after a deadly attack killed 26 civilians in the India-administered part of Kashmir.

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