New Delhi, July 4 -- Fourteen months after a terrorist attack at Pahalgam killed 26 tourists and triggered the most significant India-Pakistan confrontation in years, Islamabad held an international conference last week to argue that India's response was illegal. New Delhi has not changed its position.

Pakistan is building a case at forums beyond bilateral negotiation.

Dar's argument is specific. India's declaration that the 1960 World Bank-brokered treaty "stands in abeyance" (the diplomatic term New Delhi adopted following the Pahalgam attack) has, in Pakistan's view, no legal validity. The weaponization of shared waters and the breach of binding international treaties, he told the conference, "set dangerous precedents" for global sta...