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Water as a Multilateral Issue? The Case of Bangladesh and Implications for Indian Diplomacy
Even as India-Bangladesh ties have seen signs of economic and political stress in recent days and weeks, one recent development with bilateral implications went largely unnoticed. On June 20, Bangladesh became the first South Asian country to accede to the…
Strategic Waters: The Indus Treaty Abeyance and South Asia’s Hydropolitical Future
India's recent move to put the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance in the wake of the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on April 22 has caused a ripple in South Asia's hydro-diplomatic circles. Among the most striking moves in the…
Protecting Critical Infrastructure in South Asia: Cyber Threats and Solutions
Today our lives are inextricably linked to the digital space; cyber governs almost everything we do. From simple text messages and email to booking a gym class or accessing health information via an app to controlling critical infrastructure, our interaction…
Can the Indus Waters Treaty Be Held in Abeyance? What the Law Allows
Two days after the April 22 attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi declared that its participation in the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) would be “held in abeyance” until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably abjures ” with cross-border terrorism.…
Post Pahalgam, Does Diplomacy Have a Chance?
India and Pakistan are on the precipice of a crisis once again, following an attack on tourists in the Pahalgam area in the Anantnag district of Indian-administered Kashmir last week. The attack, responsibility for which was claimed by a relatively…
The Water Variable in South Asia’s Security Calculus
At the two-day international environmental conference hosted by Islamabad called “Breathe Pakistan" last month, former minister Sherry Rehman remarked that "climate change knows no borders." Her comments suggested that just as the challenge of changing environmental patterns is transboundary, the…