‘US, World Bank may try to save Indus treaty’

THE United States and the World Bank may intervene to prevent the complete breakdown of the (IWT), which has survived wars, near-conflict, and complete diplomatic breakdowns in the past as well. The treaty, signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between the two neighbours, divided the waters of the six rivers of the Indus Basin between them, with India receiving the three eastern rivers (the Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej). Mean­while, Pakistan obtained control of the three western rivers (