NEW DELHI, July 20 -- The Indus Waters Treaty, especially provisions for sharing cross-border rivers, will not function again in its current form, and there is no evidence of Pakistan abjuring terrorism, a key reason for the pact being suspended in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

India put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance as part of a package of punitive diplomatic and economic measures soon after The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy for Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), killed 26 civilians at Pahalgam in April 2025. India launched Operation Sindoor in May last year to target terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan in retaliation for the attack.

The people, who spoke on conditio...