{"id":74041,"date":"2026-05-18T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=74041"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:07:14","slug":"indus-waters-pca-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-05-2026\/indus-waters-pca-ruling","title":{"rendered":"India Rejects Permanent Court of Arbitration (CoA) Ruling on Indus Waters Treaty\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/ International Relation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India has rejected the <strong>latest ruling of the Court of Arbitration (CoA)<\/strong>, a five-member arbitral panel set up in <strong>2023 at Pakistan&#8217;s request to settle a dispute <\/strong>over the design of <strong>India&#8217;s Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in Jammu &amp; Kashmir<\/strong>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India has kept the<strong> 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance <\/strong>as part of India&#8217;s punitive measures against Pakistan a day after the Pahalgam terror attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Is the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Indus Waters Treaty was signed on <strong>September 19, 1960<\/strong>, after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank, which is also a signatory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under the treaty, Pakistan receives rights over the <strong>three western rivers<\/strong> \u2014<strong> Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab<\/strong> \u2014 while India retains control over the three <strong>eastern rivers \u2014 Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The treaty effectively gives Pakistan access to nearly<strong> 80% of the waters of the Indus river system<\/strong>, while India retains around 20%, along with limited usage rights on the western rivers for irrigation, power generation, and other non-consumptive purposes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The treaty sets out a cooperation and information-exchange mechanism called the <strong>Permanent Indus Commission (PIC)<\/strong>, which serves as the first tier of dispute resolution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dispute Settlement Mechanism Under IWT<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The IWT provides a graded three-tier dispute resolution structure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tier 1: <\/strong>Permanent Indus Commission (PIC): Bilateral body of commissioners from both sides. Handles routine &#8220;questions.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tier 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 Neutral Expert: Appointed by the World Bank on request of either party. Handles technical &#8220;differences.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tier 3<\/strong>:\u00a0 Court of Arbitration (CoA): Invoked for unresolved &#8220;disputes&#8221; of a legal or treaty-interpretation nature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: TH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong> In Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\"> India has rejected the latest ruling of the Court of Arbitration (CoA), a five-member arbitral panel set up in 2023 at Pakistan&#8217;s request to settle a dispute over the design of India&#8217;s Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in Jammu &#038; Kashmir. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong> What Is the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT)? <\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\"> The Indus Waters Treaty was signed on September 19, 1960, after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank, which is also a signatory. <\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\"> Under the treaty, Pakistan receives rights over the three western rivers \u2014 Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab \u2014 while India retains control over the three eastern rivers \u2014 Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej. <\/li>\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-05-2026\/indus-waters-pca-ruling \" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74044,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041\/revisions\/74044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}