India rejects Hague Court's Indus waters treaty award

India on Monday rejected the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s (PCA) order setting aside its decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, saying it had never recognised the existence of the “illegally constituted” court in The Hague. The strong response from the Ministry of External Affairs came shortly after the arbitration panel ruled that the Indus Waters Treaty remained in force and asked India to limit work on a hydroelectric project in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Indus Waters Treaty's suspension remains in force and the Hague-based Permanent Court Of Arbitration "has no jurisdiction on India's sovereign decisions" after it urged New Delhi to uphold the water-sharing treaty with Pakistan. The Court of Arbitration, the world's oldest permanent forum for international dispute, further said that India had no justification for ending or suspending the agreement and that the treaty between the two subcontinent arch-rivals remained fully in force. 
"This so called Court was constituted by the World Bank in patent breach of the terms of the Treaty and India categorically rejects its so-called award, just as it has firmly rejected all prior pronouncements by this illegally constituted body," the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.