New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- Stating that Islamabad had spent half a century dismantling the spirit of "goodwill and friendship" on which the Indus Water Treaty was concluded, Indian envoy to the United States Vinay Kwatra said New Delhi's decision to keep the IWT in abeyance "merely acknowledged what Pakistan's conduct had already destroyed".

India's decision to hold the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance was a direct response to a deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, while Pakistan's war threats over the water accord are merely an attempt to "distract from its internal problems", Kwatra said in an article published in Newsweek magazine. He affirmed that if Pakistan sincerely wants India's cooperation on bilateral issues, "it must first dismantl...