India's account: Pakistan sponsors militancy; Kashmir is integral; treaty obsolete

The position is India's own account of its disputes with Pakistan. It holds that Pakistan sponsors militancy, that Kashmir is integral to India, and that the outdated Indus waters treaty no longer binds India. Its advocates speak of Pakistan sheltering and harbouring militants and acting through proxies, treat Pakistan's troubles in Balochistan as its own internal failing, and call the treaty obsolete and in abeyance.

It is voiced by Indian outlets, 11 of them across the dispute over contested borders in South Asia, the accusations of cross-border militancy, the Indus waters treaty, the Balochistan insurgency and Kashmir. India's foreign minister, S. Jaishankar, voiced it at the UN General Assembly when he called Pakistan a serial practitioner of terrorism and renewed India's warning over the treaty.

Pakistan's account holds that India coerces Pakistan, weaponises shared water and occupies Kashmir against its people's will. The two part on who is the wronged party and on whether the treaty still binds. In recent months Indian authorities announced the arrest of more than 200 operatives linked to a Pakistan-based group, saying a terror plot was foiled, the US ambassador called Jammu and Kashmir an important part of India, prompting Pakistan to summon a US diplomat, and Pakistan carried out strikes inside Afghanistan.