Pakistan's military top brass has reaffirmed a "resolute commitment" to take all necessary measures to secure the country's water share under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a 1960 accord governing the division of flows from the Indus river system between the two countries. The pledge came at the 276th Corps Commanders' Conference in Rawalpindi, chaired by Field Marshal Asim Munir, following India's unilateral decision earlier this year to hold the treaty in abeyance — a move Pakistani officials and international observers have characterised as a violation of binding treaty obligations and international law. The dispute carries existential stakes for Pakistan, whose Indus Basin Irrigation System — the world's largest contiguous irrigation network — underpins more than 90 percent of the country's food production and depends almost entirely on river flows that originate upstream in India.