New Delhi:
World bank On Friday, it was overcome from speculation that it would “fix” the decades of political and military tension between India and Pakistan. A message from World Bank chief Ajay BangaShared by the Government of India, said, “We have no role to play beyond a feature.”
“There is a lot of speculation in the media about how the World Bank will take steps and fix the problem … but all this is the bed. The role of the World Bank is only as a source,” said Mr. Banga.
Mr. Banga met Prime Minister Narendra Modi In Delhi on Thursday.
Meeting Time – Nine terrorist camps in Pakistan erased a day after India’s Operation Sindoor, and even when the Indo -Pak missile and drone attacks were repeating – raised eyebrows.
However, later a government statement clarified that Mr. Banga was in the country on investment opportunities in Uttar Pradesh, which is a BJP stronghold which will hold an assembly election in 2027.
His program includes talks with UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Nevertheless, Mr. Banga’s visit to India is at this time to talk to New Delhi that the global financial body can be celebrated to start the screws on the economy already staggering Pakistan.
We have no role to play beyond a narrator. There is a lot of speculation in the media about how the World Bank will fix and fix the problem, but all this is the bed. The role of the World Bank is only as a source
-President of Fund Bank, Ajay Banga #Induswaterrety Suspension… pic.twitter.com/6bbizpkf0o
– PIB India (@Pib_India) May 9, 2025
The World Bank’s message responded to that on Friday, and also to guess that it could make a deal between New Delhi and Islamabad. Suspension of Indus Water Treaty,
Back in 1960, the World Bank intervened in a long-running Indo-Pak dispute over sharing water with the Indus river system, and helped both countries work and sign the treaty.
NDTV explains. Story of Indus Water Treaty, Partition, Planning, Cooking
It took nine years to remove political machines before consulting and signing the treaty between every country and the engineers of the World Bank.
Fast-forward 65 years and a compromise that stood through three Indo-Pak wars and several clashes, was suspended by India on 22 April after the Pihalagam terror attack.
IWT is important for Pakistan as 135 million acres of water from Indus, Ravi, and Jhelum – ‘Western’ rivers allotted to Pakistan – supply about 80 percent of their fields.
The suspension of the Treaty of India was slammed by Pakistan as an “Act of War”.
However, on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri emphasized India’s right to capture IWT, indicating that decades ago, “was” signed “in a sense of goodwill and friendship”.
Read | “Mark those words”: fast response to Pakistan on India’s Indus Treaty
“If you see (closely), the preamble of the treaty itself suggests that the treaty was concluded in the spirit of goodwill and friendship. Mark those words … It is India’s patience and tolerance that despite the 65 -year attacks and stimuli, we are following the treaty,” he said.
He said, “The fact is that there have been fundamental changes in the circumstances in which the treaty was concluded,” he said, now insisted that “that treaty needs to assure the obligations under that treaty”.
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