Goa, July 3 -- India on Friday reaffirmed that there is no change in its position on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), maintaining that the 1960 water-sharing agreement with Pakistan will remain in abeyance until Islamabad takes credible and irreversible steps to end its support for cross-border terrorism.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued the clarification after Pakistan's Climate Change Minister Musadik Malik warned that Islamabad would "cut off those hands" that attempted to claim Pakistan's share of water under the treaty. Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar also asserted that the World Bank-brokered agreement remained legally binding and could not be suspended or amended unilaterally.

Addressing the weekly medi...