India warns foe Pakistan of potential flooding as both battle torrential rains
India warns foe Pakistan of potential flooding as both battle torrential rains
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alt="Residents stand at the entrance of a house on a flooded road, due to the monsoon rains and rising water level of the Sutlej River, in Hakuwala village near the Pakistan-India border in Kasur district of the Punjab province, Pakistan, August 24, 2025. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro"/>This month floods in Indias northern territory of Jammu and Kashmir have killed at least 60 people.
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FloodsNEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD - India has shared a warning on possible cross-border flooding with neighbour Pakistan, Pakistani officials and a source in New Delhi said on Aug 25, as the arch enemies grapple with deadly floods and relentless monsoon rains.
The information-sharing has come as a surprise because New Delhi put a decades-old treaty with Islamabad on water access in “abeyance” in April after linking a deadly attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir
India’s high commission in Islamabad shared the warning on Aug 24 with Pakistan’s foreign ministry on “humanitarian grounds” and not under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, the Indian source said, following heavy rains in the Jammu and Kashmir region bordering Pakistan.
The source, citing government rules, declined to be named. India’s foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the warning was issued through diplomatic channels “rather than through the Indus Waters Commission as required under the Indus Waters Treaty”.
This month floods in Indias northern territory of Jammu and Kashmir have killed at least 60 people and nearly 400 more in northwest Pakistan.
In total, the floods have killed 799 people
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