At the UN, Pakistan has rejected India's illegal attempt to hold Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance and warned against weaponization of water.

This was stated by Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN Asim Iftikhar Ahmad while speaking at the United Nations Security Council High-Level Open Debate on "Natural Resource Governance: The Foundation of Peace, Security and Prosperity".

The Ambassador underscored that the Indus Waters Treaty remains valid, binding and fully in force, as reaffirmed by the August 2025 Award of the Court of Arbitration.

He urged the UN Security Council to remain vigilant against the exploitation or weaponization of natural resources and to make full use of preventive diplomacy, peaceful dispute settlement, sanctions regimes and monitoring mechanisms where such actions endanger peace.

In response to Remarks by Indian Representative at the Security Council High-Level Open Debate, First Secretary Ansar Shah said India’s terrorist proxies the TTP, BLA and Majeed Brigade have killed thousands of civilians and law enforcement personnel, including women and children on our soil. He said India’s involvement in extraterritorial executions including in North America is also well known. He said India is not a victim but a sponsor of terrorism.

The First Secretary said India is also a perpetrator of state terrorism, including in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir whose population is being denied its right to self determination in gross violation of numerous resolutions of the Security Council.