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Pakistan is preparing to take international legal action against India for suspending the Indus Waters Treaty.
As per details, Pakistan is preparing to take international legal action against India for suspending the Indus Waters Treaty and for this the country’s top legal authority has set up a committee to help the government.
Minister of State for Law and Justice, Barrister Aqeel Malik informed the Reuters that the government is considering at least three legal paths. One of them is to take the issue to the World Bank.
Pakistan is also thinking about going to the Permanent Court of Arbitration or the International Court of Justice in The Hague. There, it may argue that India has broken the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
Barrister Aqeel said that planning for the legal strategy is almost finished, and a final decision will be made soon. It’s likely that Pakistan will choose to follow more than one legal route.
Barrister Aqeel said Pakistan will take legal action on several fronts, and the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has formed a team to help with legal support.Pakistan strongly denied any part in the attack. In response, it also suspended all trade with India and closed its airspace to Indian planes.
Barrister Aqeel also said that Pakistan is thinking about taking the issue to the United Nations Security Council as a fourth option.
“We are exploring every possible and proper forum to raise our case,” he told Reuters.
He added that India cannot pause or suspend the treaty on its own, as the treaty does not allow that.
It is worth mentioning that officials and experts from both countries say India cannot immediately stop the water flow under the treaty. It only lets India build hydroelectric plants without big dams or storage on the three rivers given to Pakistan.
