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Indus Waters Treaty: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date September 19, 1960
Participants India • Pakistan
Context Indus River • Inter-Dominion Accord

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Physical map showing the Indus River basin and its drainage network across parts of Pakistan, India, China, and Afghanistan. The map details river courses, tributaries, canals, dams, irrigated and marsh areas, sand regions, and elevation changes with shaded relief. International, disputed, and control boundaries are marked, and a small locator map in the corner shows the basin's position within South Asia.
A narrow bridge crosses the turquoise Indus River, surrounded by rocky banks and yellow-leaved trees, with the Karakoram Mountains rising in the background in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.
Soldiers on Alert
Two distressed people sit amid ruins; behind them is a partitioned, color-coded map of India overlaid on destroyed urban buildings.
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Jawaharlal Nehru, c. 1930s
Jawaharlal Nehru
prime minister of India
Mohammad Ayub Khan
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president of Pakistan
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David E. Lilienthal
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Eugene Robert Black
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