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Pakistan's dubious record of violating bilateral pacts, global resolutions

Pakistan has violated numerous international treaties and UN resolutions, supporting terrorism while disregarding human rights and regional agreements.

Published on: May 2, 2025, 04:55:10 IST
By Shishir Gupta, New Delhi
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Islamabad has made much of India putting the 1960 Indus Water Treaty in abeyance, but it is Pakistan that has violated scores of international treaties, disregarded UN resolutions, ignored conventions on terrorism and organized crime, and turned a blind eye to accepted human rights covenants and resolutions on nuclear non-proliferation. It has also violated key provisions of the 1972 Simla Agreement and the 1999 Lahore Declaration in the context of cross border terrorism and respecting territorial integrity of neighbours.

PREMIUMPakistan has violated scores of treaties over the years and neglected various human rights conventions (REUTERS)
Pakistan has violated scores of treaties over the years and neglected various human rights conventions (REUTERS)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shishir Gupta

Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.

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