Claim

The Indus Waters Treaty was signed on 19 September 1960 and survived intact through the 1965 war, the 1971 war, Kargil in 1999, the Mumbai attack and the Pulwama attack.

“19 सितंबर 1960 में यह समझौता हुआ। 65 की जंग, 71 की लड़ाई, 99 का कारगिल, मुंबई का आतंकी हमला, पुलवामा का आतंकी अटैक सब झेल गए... लेकिन यह सिंधु जल संधि समझौता [अटूट रहा]।”

Rationale

The treaty was indeed signed on 19 September 1960 in Karachi by Nehru and Ayub Khan (with retrospective effect from 1 April 1960). It remained in force continuously through the 1965 war, the 1971 war, the 1999 Kargil conflict, the 2008 Mumbai attacks and the 2019 Pulwama attack; India continued honoring it even during active wars. The treaty was only disrupted for the first time in April 2025 when India placed it in abeyance after the Pahalgam attack — after all the events the anchor cited. Every specific detail in the claim (date, and survival through the five named events) is factually correct.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Waters_Treaty Confirms the Indus Waters Treaty was signed in Karachi on 19 September 1960 by PM Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan, and that it endured through decades of conflict including the 1965 and 1971 wars before India held it in abeyance in 2025. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.britannica.com/event/Indus-Waters-Treaty Describes the treaty (signed 1960) as one of the most durable water-sharing agreements, surviving repeated wars and hostilities between India and Pakistan. ✗ unreachable · HTTP 403
• https://www.csis.org/analysis/can-india-cut-pakistans-indus-river-lifeline States the treaty's resilience through war and conflict lasted until India announced it would hold the treaty in abeyance after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack — the first disruption in its history, i.e. it had survived all prior events including Kargil, Mumbai and Pulwama. ✓ reachable · archived