It was a test of Sickularism at play.
In other words - appease an enemy nation !!
Not just water, money too flowed from India to Pakistan as part of Indus treaty
For a treaty hailed globally as a triumph of water diplomacy, India paid not just in rivers, but in rupees, following the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan of 1960. Behind the Indus treaty lies the lesser-known story of how India bankrolled Pakistan's water infrastructure, only to be repaid with hostility.
Someone was in hurry to please someone.... or someone else.
The impasse ended only after India and other donor countries agreed to pay $1 billion ($10 billion today, factoring in inflation).
Of this, India paid $174 million ($1.6 billion today) to Pakistan.
This paved the way for the signing of the Indus Waters Treaty in 1960.
"I have stuck my neck out to secure funds from various friendly governments," an impatient and anxious World Bank president, Eugene Black, told Indian and Pakistani negotiators in April 1959. He needed to break the impasse over the agreement over the Indus waters. Time was running out, and an agreement could not be reached for the potential Indus Waters Treaty even after eight long years of negotiation.
And the virtuous Indian leadership obliged the negotiator as well as the 'enemy nation' !!
Under the agreement, Pakistan was granted exclusive rights over the western rivers, the Indus, Chenab, and Jhelum, while India retained unrestricted use of the eastern rivers, the Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej.
While billions of gallons of water continued flowing into Pakistan, millions of dollars also flowed from India to Pakistan for the next 10 years, as compensation for India's exclusive access to the eastern rivers.
Over almost six decades later, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) is again in the spotlight. Following the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, India announced the suspension of the IWT.
Pakistani and Pakistan-trained terrorists killed 26 civilians, mostly Hindu tourists.
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