India, Sept. 5 -- India on Friday said it has been sharing flood data with Pakistan through diplomatic channels purely on a humanitarian basis after the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack in April.

Both India and Pakistan have witnessed unusually heavy rainfall in recent weeks that have triggered heavy floods in parts of the two countries. The rainfall has also led to an increase in the level of several trans-border rivers, which were under the now-suspended Indus Waters Treaty of 1960.

India decided to put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance as part of a package of punitive diplomatic and economic measures adopted soon after the Pahalgam terror attack in April that killed 26 civilians. I...