Pakistan's account: India coerces, weaponises water, occupies Kashmir

The position is Pakistan's own account of its disputes with India. It holds that Pakistan is the wronged party: India coerces it, weaponises shared water and occupies Kashmir against its people's will. Its advocates describe Kashmir as disputed territory with unresolved UN resolutions, call for self-determination and a plebiscite, treat the Indus waters treaty as binding and call India's unilateral action water aggression.

Outlets from the Global South voice it: nine on the Indus waters treaty dispute and on Kashmir, five on contested borders in South Asia. Outlets from Western and allied countries cover related ground, nine of them on unrest and rights across the divided territory of Kashmir and on repression and disappearances in Balochistan. In recent events, Tarar warned that India's unilateral actions on the treaty could have implications for water governance globally.

India's account holds that Pakistan sponsors militancy, that Kashmir is integral to India, and that the outdated treaty no longer binds it. The two part on who is the wronged party and on whether the treaty still binds. The events of recent months include a bomb attack on a passenger train in Balochistan, claimed by the Baloch Liberation Army, that killed at least 24 people.