Blue Community Ambassador Farhana Sultana, Professor at the Department of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University, was talking with Deutsche Welle about the ramifications & dangers that India-Pakistan conflict & transboundary river treaty violations pose elsewhere:
“These treaty violations and suspensions can have ripple-on deleterious effects across and beyond the region for the examples they set.”
India’s move to use the IWT as geopolitical leverage “undermines the legal integrity of such treaties,” said Farhana Sultana, a water, climate and development expert with research experience in South Asia.
“These treaty violations and suspensions can have ripple-on deleterious (harmful) effects across and beyond the region for the examples they set,” Sultana told DW, adding that “any unilateral suspension of a treaty on transboundary international rivers pose grave threats to regional security.”
