Indian CCS

India's Cabinet Committee on Security meets with New Delhi's attention split uncomfortably in two directions at once. To the west, the Indus Waters Treaty sits frozen in the aftermath of Pahalgam and Operation Sindoor, and Islamabad's own defense minister has floated the unthinkable: that a fight over water could tip into a fight with guns, with no diplomatic off-ramp currently in view. To the north, the temperature has cooled considerably since the worst of the standoff years, but Beijing's recent revival of its claim to the Shaksgam Valley threatens to drag Kashmir back into a border dispute that seemed to be settling down. Delegates will sit as the Prime Minister and the handful of ministers who actually carry the weight of India's highest-stakes security decisions, weighing when to strike, when to talk, and when to simply wait out a crisis, all while managing two very different neighbors on two very different clocks. Because both fronts are genuinely live, delegates should follow the news closely in the lead-up to and throughout the conference, as real developments may shape where committee debate goes.