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Indus treaty will not to be affected: Centre

"There is no question of abrogating the treaty. The present level of tension will have no bearing on the talks being held tomorrow [Wednesday]," she said.

Terming the commissioner-level talks as a "routine one", she said, "India will share data pertaining to flood forecast and the talks will be held as per the international treaty signed between the two countries in September 1960."

Criticising Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's comments on the communal riots in India, Chakraborty said, "This meeting should send a signal that India wants to cooperate and people of the two countries can have safe and good water."

she said the upper riparian countries had always cooperated with the lower riparian states and cited that India had always received help in this regard from countries like China and Nepal.

PTI

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