PM reviews Indus treaty with Pak

Prime Minister Modi facing severe pressure to avenge Uri, is reportedly weighing alternative options to military strike, including scrapping the 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT).  Given that Modi wouldn’t want risk his own hard-won image of a matured diplomat internationally choosing a full-fledged war, strategic options such as re-looking at IWT seem possible. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a meeting to review the Indus Waters treaty with Pakistan amidst heightened tension between the two countries. Principal secretary to PM, Nripendra Misra, NSA Ajit Doval and foreign secretary S Jaishankar also attended the meeting in the PM's residence. "Blood and water cannot flow together," Prime Minister Narendra Modi was quoted as saying at a meeting with top officials this morning to assess the 50-year-old treaty with Pakistan days after the Uri terror attack. The decision to examine the Indus treaty comes days after foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said while India did not intend to violate the 1960 treaty, "eventually any cooperative arrangement requires goodwill and mutual trust on both sides".  Sources said the government plans to exploit to the maximum the capacity of three of the rivers that are under Pakistan's control - Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. The treaty was signed in 1960 between India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's president General Ayub Khan after World Bank brokered negotiations that lasted almost a decade.