Info minister says Indus Waters Treaty is 'an instrument of peace, regional stability'

Information Minister Attaullah Tarar is currently addressing a seminar organised to highlight the legal and constitutional framework of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).

The seminar is under way at the Jinnah Convention Centre in Islamabad.

At the outset of his speech, Tarar described the IWT as “an instrument of peace and regional stability” and said that “today, we are not merely discussing the treaty. We are discussing the lifeline of nearly 240 million people of Pakistan”.

“When we identify ourselves as Pakistanis, we ask a question as to who we are. And if you go back into history, the Indus water [sic] civilisation defines us as people. Whenever I go abroad, I always tell my counterparts that we are the people of the Indus Valley civilisation,” he said.

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