Perspective – Written by Zsolt Trembeczki
In response to the April 2025 terrorist attack near Pahalgam, India suspended the 1960 Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, which governs the sharing of vital water resources in the transboundary Indus River Basin. India probably lacks the upstream infrastructure necessary to cause serious damage to its neighbor, but the normalization of weaponizing water could put India itself in an awkward situation vis-à-vis China concerning the Brahmaputra River Basin and contribute to more dangerous situations along transboundary rivers like the Mekong, the Tigris–Euphrates system, or the Nile.