However, after the meeting, officials made it clear that the IWT will hold, at least for the moment. Instead, the Centre drew up a list of measures to optimise use of the Indus waters, that India has so far failed to do. Dams required to hold the course of the tributaries of the Indus to alter water levels to Pakistan dramatically would take more than a decade to build. But it did limit the potential damage by bringing down the heated rhetoric with a rational analysis on the Treaty. India cannot also ignore the fact that the Uri attack has exposed the need to shore up its defences.

Source: The Hindu September 27, 2016 19:07 UTC