A Favor from New Delhi

India ended a 65-year water treaty, reclassified Pakistan's flood warnings as a gesture of goodwill, and left 16 million hectares of farmland guessing what is building upstream.

This is not a favor but an act of war which goes against Article 54 of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1977 and accepted as customary international law binding on all states regardless of ratification, prohibits attacking, destroying, removing, or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian…