A view of Indus river
New Delhi, September 26, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting to take stock of Indus Water Treaty post Uri terror attack in which 18 jawans were martyred, here on Monday.
The NSA Ajit Doval, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Nripendra Mishra, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, Water Resources Secretary Shashi Sekhar and other senior officials briefed Modi on the 56-year old pact.
The treaty signed in 1960 by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then Pakistan President Ayub Khan, allocates 80 per cent of water from the six-river Indus water system to Pakistan.
Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum form the Indus water system that flows from India to Pakistan. The treaty, brokered by the World Bank, is often considered to be too one-sided and there has been growing clamour to relook at it. The pact has survived wars and phases of frosty ties between India and Pakistan.