Pakistan has reaffirmed the importance of the Indus Water Treaty, responding to India's notice seeking a review of the 64-year-old agreement. India cited changes in circumstances and cross-border terrorism as reasons for the review.

India on August 30 served a formal notice to Pakistan seeking a review of the agreement citing "fundamental and unforeseen" changes in the circumstances and impact of the persistent cross-border terrorism,

Under the Indus Water Treaty, India was granted unrestricted access to the water from the ‘Eastern Rivers’, and Pakistan retained rights to that from the ‘Western Rivers'.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the main city in Himalayan Kashmir on Thursday to campaign for his party in the local election, the first such vote since New Delhi stripped the disputed region’s semi-autonomy in 2019.

Jammu and Kashmir is India's only Muslim-majority territory and has been at the centre of a dispute with neighbouring Pakistan since 1947. India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir in

India’s troubled region of Jammu and Kashmir saw a brisk turnout amid tight security as voters cast their ballots on Wednesday in the first regional legislative elections in a decade. The region, which has seen years of separatist violence and is at the centre of a dispute between India and Pakistan,