New Delhi, June 21 -- Pakistan is trying to get European policymakers, legal scholars, and climate institutions to see the Indus river water-sharing dispute as a humanitarian issue, a climate adaptation issue and a global commons issue. This is the most important takeaway from the recent Brussels seminar on Indus water.

The event-"Transboundary Water Resources: A Weaponised Global Common"-was held on Thursday 18 June in Brussels co-organised by the think-tank called Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS ) and Pakistan's Mission to the EU.

It explicitly framed shared rivers as a security, climate, and legal issue, with the Indus basin as the central case study. The conference sees the Indus dispute inside three international policy ba...