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The Indus is Pakistan: 90% of its agriculture drinks from one river system whose headwaters rise in Indian-held Kashmir. The Indus Waters Treaty has survived every war between the two — because suspending it is the one escalation Pakistan could not absorb.

27.7°N · 68.9°E

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Map stories featuring Indus

THE PARTITION OF 1947 · A LINE THROUGH A LANDThe Line That Split a SubcontinentINDIA & PAKISTAN · THE HIMALAYAN WALLThe Wall and the Water
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