September 14, 2026
The PPP chairman said India started a war on a false premise and lost, after Malaysia's prime minister declined in an Indian television interview to call Pakistan's alleged role state-sponsored.
September 2, 2026
Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said Pakistan remains hopeful despite the US-Iran escalation and will keep pressing for dialogue, and welcomed an arbitration ruling that India's decision to hold the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance does not relieve it of its obligations.
September 2, 2026
The Punjab Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution condemning India for violating the Indus Waters Treaty, demanding strict implementation and welcoming the Court of Arbitration decision supporting Pakistan's position.
September 2, 2026
A tribunal has told India that placing the Indus Waters Treaty "in abeyance" does not relieve it of its obligations — because abeyance is not a status the treaty contains. A column on states inventing categories to escape commitments, and what happens when somebody checks.
September 1, 2026
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the SCO Council of Heads of State in Bishkek that water must never be weaponised or used as an instrument of coercion, and that treaties governing shared waters are binding international commitments.
August 29, 2026
India and Pakistan are arguing about the Indus Waters Treaty in an American magazine. Aflatoon reads both ambassadors' columns in full and finds that neither names the commission the treaty built to settle exactly this.
August 29, 2026
Deputy PM Ishaq Dar and Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, say the Indus Waters Treaty stays binding despite India holding it "in abeyance" since April 2025, and warn against weaponising transboundary rivers.
August 19, 2026
A new Notam extends the closure of Pakistani airspace to all Indian-registered, Indian-operated and Indian-leased aircraft until 4:59am on September 24. It is the sixteenth such extension since April 2025.
August 14, 2026
The prime minister said every drop of Pakistan's water was a "red line" and warned India would face a direct response if it did not return to the right path, speaking at the inauguration of the Yadgar-e-Fatah monument in Islamabad.
June 30, 2026
India's water resources minister has said New Delhi is working to stop "a single drop" of Indus water from reaching Pakistan, hardening a position that has kept the 66-year-old treaty in suspension since April 2025. Pakistan's defence minister has warned the dispute could lead to war; Islamabad has asked the UN Security Council to intervene.
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