While the data for India, released on Saturday, gives a comparative analysis of poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, for Pakistan, it highlights the same between 2017-18 and 2020-21.

After independence, India and Pakistan inherited economies stripped bare, However, India, by June 2025, had become the ...

India’s action is the first-ever suspension of the pact. The treaty, “a rare beacon of cooperation between India and Pakistan,” allocates waters in the Indus basin.

In 1960, with mediation by the World Bank, India and Pakistan signed a water-sharing pact known as the Indus Waters Treaty, which outlined how both countries could use water from the river system.