When Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir addressed the 276th Corps Commanders’ Conference at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on 6 July 2026, he stated that the country would take “all necessary steps” against India after its suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). Pakistan’s climate minister, Musadik Malik, also took an aggressive tone in June 2026, when he warned that “if anyone lays a hand on Islamabad’s share of water, we’ll cut off that hand.”
Such statements represent the immediate (and continuing) dangers facing the IWT as it reached its sixty-sixth anniversary as a landmark water sharing agreement on September 19,
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