Abstract
International watercourses are the only supplementary sources of water for the many states having arid or semiarid climatic conditions that could economically be developed to bridge the rapidly increasing gap between demand
and supply. In absence of any international law to deal with uses of international watercourses other than
navigational purposes, agreements among co-riparian states are very important for the development of an entire
basin. Although the U. N. Convention on the Uses of International Rivers for non-navigational purposes was
adopted by the U. N. General Assembly in 1997 and after the rectification of 35 Member States, it has been
functioning since 2014, but the importance of the negotiation processes that resulted in numerous successful
agreements on water resource management can never be denied. This document provides an historical analysis of
the negotiating process which culminated into the Indus Waters Treaty.
Dr. Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti, Farzad Ahmad, Asia Saif Alvi, Muhammad Kashif Ali, Dr. Nabila Akhtar. (2020) Negotiating the Indus Waters Treaty: An Historical Assessment, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 57, Issue 1.
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