India Rejects Court Ruling on Indus Waters Treaty The Indus Waters Treaty, a decades old agreement between India and Pakistan over the sharing of the Indus River's waters, has been at the center of escalating tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbors.
A recent ruling by a Hague based arbitration court that the treaty remains in force sparked a furious reaction from India.
Beneath the surface level posturing lies a complex web of historical, geographical, and cultural factors that have shaped this dispute into one of the most contentious issues between India and Pakistan since their independence.