The Mittal Institute welcomes you to a presentation by Muhammad Imran Mehsud, Syed Babar Ali Fellow Spring 2024, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, moderated by Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard University.
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) outlines two dispute resolution mechanisms: the Neutral Expert (NE) and the Court of Arbitration (CoA). While India advocates for the NE mechanism, Pakistan insists on invoking the CoA mode. This seminar aims to discuss the underlying reasons for the divergent preferences in dispute resolution mechanisms and their impact on the efficacy of the IWT in settling contemporary transboundary water issues between India and Pakistan.
Muhammad Imran Mehsud is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in South Asian transboundary hydropolitics. He is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan. His research at The Mittal Institute investigates the effectiveness of the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 in settling contemporary transboundary water issues between India and Pakistan, given the significant demographic, climatic, and political changes these two nuclear rivals have undergone.
