The Indus society came to prominence in what is now northwest India and Pakistan some 5,300 years ago thanks in large part to the sustenance of a long-lost Himalayan river. Or so it was thought.
The Indus river begins high up in the Himalayan mountains (the tallest mountain range in the world), and flows nearly 3,000 kilometres to the Arabian Sea. As the river moves downstream it carves ...
The US-backed Indus Water ... must be run-of-the-river projects that do not alter water flow or enable water storage which could undermine Pakistan's rights as the downstream riparian nation.