Pakistan, April 25 -- One year ago, India took an action that managed to accomplish what multiple full-scale wars, decades of diplomatic estrangement, and persistent cross-border tensions never could: the deliberate rupture of the Indus Waters Treaty. By unilaterally deciding to hold the treaty in abeyance, India departed from a six-decade tradition of compliance, transforming a conflict-resilient legal instrument that had survived armed hostilities into a politicized tool of coercion against a lower riparian state. This unprecedented move constitutes a direct affront to the principle of pacta sunt servanda, the foundational international law obligation to honor treaty commitments in good faith, and projects an image of strategic irrespon...