Letter to BS: Scrapping Indus Water Treaty not the right thing to do

When all over the world the Treaty is referred to as most successful, how will scrapping this treaty teach Pakistan a lesson?

Union water resources Minister Nitin Gadkari’s decision to “stop” India's share of water of the three rivers — Ravi, Beas and Sutlej — that used to flow to Pakistan, was anger over the Pulwama terror attack or another vote bank opportunity is debatable. What Gadkari said — that in the last 54 years, India and Pakistan have gone to wars, but nobody spoke about scrapping the Indus Waters Treaty — is not completely true. In this Treaty, we have divided six rivers. Three rivers on the eastern front (Sutlej, Beas and Ravi) are given to India, on the western side,