The military's top brass on Monday expressed a resolute commitment to undertake all necessary measures to ensure the availability of Pakistan’s "rightful share of water" amid tensions with India over the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).
For more than six decades, India and Pakistan amicably managed the Indus River system through the IWT transboundary water-sharing agreement signed on September 19, 1960. In April last year, India suspended the treaty in the wake of the Pahalgam attack. Last week, Pakistan held an IWT seminar at which the political leadership pledged a robust defence of Pakistan’s rights under the treaty through all available legal and diplomatic means, warning that any attempt to deprive the country of its share of water would have “profound consequences for regional peace and security”.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir presided over the 276th Corps Commanders’ Conference (CCC) at General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
The statement said that the forum took note of Indian rhetoric surrounding the IWT and reaffirmed the guidance issued in the National Security Committee’s directive of April 24, 2025.
“It expressed a resolute commitment to undertake all measures necessary to ensure the availability of Pakistan’s rightful share of water as per the directives of the Government and the aspirations of the people of Pakistan,” ISPR said.
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The statement further added that the forum expressed serious concerns over the continued use of territory under the control of the Afghan Taliban regime by Indian sponsored terrorist groups, including Fitna-al Khawarij and Fitna-al Hindustan to orchestrate attacks inside Pakistan.
Fitna-al Khawarij is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) while Fitna-al Hindustan is a term designated by the state for terrorist organisations in Balochistan.
"The forum affirmed that lasting peace and stability in the region is contingent upon preventing use of Afghan Taliban controlled territory by Indian terrorist proxies for which the Afghan Taliban regime is directly responsible," it stated.
The forum noted that Pakistan had an unequivocal right to defend its people from terrorism and the armed forces shall continue Intelligence-Based Operations against terrorism emanating from Afghan Taliban controlled territory under the ambit of Operation Ghazab lil Haq.
Operation Ghazab Lil Haq was launched around the end of February following renewed clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, after Afghan Taliban forces fired on multiple locations, prompting swift military retaliation by Pakistan.
According to ISPR, the military top brass underscored the immediate need for putting in place robust governance structures in restive areas which were directed towards public service and welfare as well as to break the nefarious terror-crime nexus thriving under vested political patronage.
The forum noted that after what it described as the comprehensive defeat inflicted in Marka-e-Haq, "there is an increased reliance on an evolving pattern of externally supported hybrid warfare and disinformation campaigns aimed at causing unrest."
The term “Marka-e-Haq” refers to the 2025 conflict with India, which began with the April 22 Pahalgam attack and concluded with a ceasefire on May 10 following Operation Bunyanum Marsoos.
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