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AsiaPac · 3 hrs ago

'No jurisdiction, illegal': India tears into Hague court's Indus Waters Treaty award

MEA said that the Indus Water Treaty will remain in abeyanceNEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs on Monday categorically rejected a ruling by World Bank-constituted Court of Arbitration on Indus Water Treaty, terming it an "illegally constituted" organisation.In a statement, MEA said that New Delhi's decision to put the water treaty with Pakistan in abeyance "will remain in force.""This so-called Court was constituted by the World Bank in patent breach of the terms of the Treaty and India categorically rejects its so-called award, just as it has firmly rejected all prior pronouncements by this illegally constituted body," the ministry said."India has never recognised the existence in law of this illegally-constituted and so-called Court of Arbitration, and has consistently maintained th
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