India's notice to PAK on Indus Water Treaty: Said- Pakistan's arbitrariness is not acceptable

India has issued a notice to Pakistan for the amendment to the Indus Waters Treaty of September 1960. According to sources, India has always been committed to implementing this agreement, but due to the arbitrariness of Pakistan, this treaty is being affected. This is the reason why India is forced to issue notice to Pakistan.
Actually, India wants a change in Indus Water Treaty, but Pakistan is avoiding it. He repeatedly approaches the World Bank without talking to India directly. Through this notice, India has given Pakistan an opportunity to conduct Inter-Governmental Negotiations in 90 days to rectify the material breach. This is the first time India has sought an amendment to the Indus Water Treaty.
According to the report of the news agency ANI, the World Bank has recently started the action of neutral expert and court of arbitration process on the repeated request of Pakistan. Whereas under any provision of IWT, these two actions cannot take place simultaneously.
Pakistan had objected to India's Kishanganga and Ratle Hydro Electric Projects (HEPs). In 2015, Pakistan demanded the appointment of a neutral expert to investigate this. In 2016, Pakistan unilaterally withdrew this demand. Soon after this, he reached the Court of Arbitration. He wanted the Court of Arbitration to decide these objections.
According to reports, this action of Pakistan is against Article IX of the Dispute Settlement of IWT. India had demanded to send this issue separately to a neutral expert. The World Bank then said that parallel action on the same issue could create a legally untenable situation. This could put the IWT at risk, but now the World Bank has decided to act on the issue.
India tried several times to talk to Pakistan on this issue, but Pakistan refused every time. India raised this issue 5 times between 2017 and 2022 in the Permanent Indus Commission, but a solution could not be found.
The Indus Water Treaty is a water-sharing arrangement that was signed on 19 September 1960 by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's President Ayub Khan in Karachi. It includes rights to distribute and use the waters of the six rivers Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. The World Bank mediated the agreement.
Of the total 168 million acre-feet of these rivers, India's share is 33 million acre-feet, which is about 20 percent of the total. On the other hand, the waters of the rivers Indus (Indus), Chenab and Jhelum in the west have been given to Pakistan. However, India has the right to use the water of these rivers for agriculture and domestic purposes. Along with this, India can also build hydroelectric power projects within certain parameters.