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It could prompt China to block the Brahmaputra River, which supplies around 30 percent of India’s fresh water and about 44 percent of its total hydropower potential.

The Indus Water Treaty was signed in Karachi by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then Pakistani president Field Marshal Ayub Khan.