DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● POSTAL REGN. NO. JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2025, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 THREE WEEKS AFTER IT SUSPENDED TREATY, DELHI CONSIDERING ISLAMABAD RESPONSE First time, Pak says willing to discuss Indus terms Encourage direct India, IAEA: No radiation leak Pak communication: US or release from any walks back on mediation nuclear facility in Pak Pak Water Resources Secretary offers to discuss specific terms of 1960 Treaty on which India has objections HARIKISHAN SHARMA NEW DELHI, MAY 14 DAYS AFTER India notified Pakistan that it was placing the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) inabeyancewith“immediateeffect”followingthePahalgamterror attack, Islamabad has — for thefirsttime—signalleditswillingness to discuss Delhi’s concernsaboutthetreaty,TheIndian Express has learned. Pakistan’s Water Resources Secretary,SyedAliMurtaza,isunderstood to have recently respondedtoIndia’sformalintimation of the Union Cabinet’s BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY decision to keep the treaty in abeyance, and offered to, on behalf of his government, discuss thespecifictermsIndiaobjectsto. Sources aware of the development said, Murtaza, however, questioned the basis of the decision, pointing out that the treaty itself didnothaveanyexitclause. Murtaza’s offer to discuss India’s objections is especially significant because despite two prior notices — in January 2023 and again in September 2024 — requesting a “review and modification”of theIWT,Pakistanhad notexpresseditsexplicitwillingness so far. It is only after India CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BHOPAL, MAY 14 TRUMP MEETS SYRIA PRESIDENT PAGE 14 NEW DELHI, MAY 14 BSF constable Purnam Kumar Shaw (centre) was returned to India after three weeks in Pakistani custody. PTI PAGE6 FACING A pushback from India on US PresidentDonaldTrump’s remark about mediation on Kashmir, the US State Department has sought to nuance Washington’s position by saying it “encourages direct communication” between India and Pakistan and commends Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for choosing the path of peace. INSIDE DELHISENDSTEAMTO U.N.TOLISTTRFAS TERRORGROUP PAGE 5 The State Department is awareofNewDelhi’ssensitivities on an issue like mediation by the US, and has articulated a carefully-crafted factual statement that doesn’t wade into the IndiaPakistanpolitics,anddoesn’tcontradict President Trump either. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ‘Cancerous’: HC orders FIR against MP Minister for targeting Col Qureshi ANAND MOHAN J THE WORLD SHUBHAJIT ROY THE MADHYA Pradesh High Court Wednesday ordered an FIR against state Tribal Affairs Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah for his remarks seen as directed against Colonel Sofiya Qureshi who was part of the daily media briefings by the Indian Armed Forces on Operation Sindoor. Shah’s comments targeting CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ANIL SASI NEW DELHI, MAY 14 THE GLOBAL nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has said that there has been “no radiation leak” from any nuclear facility in Pakistan after the escalated military engagement with India. The Vienna-based global nuclearwatchdog’sreply,toaquery from The Indian Express, ties in with the earlier response by the IndianAirForcethatIndiahasnot hitanytargetinPakistan’sKirana Hills, which is reported to house some nuclear installations. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CABINET NOD TO HCL-FOXCONN JV `3,706-cr chip assembly plant near Noida cleared SOUMYARENDRA BARIK NEW DELHI, MAY 14 MP minister Vijay Shah under fire over remark THE EDITORIAL PAGE FIRETHEMINISTER Government must send this much-needed message given the abuse machine. Colonel Qureshi deserves better P8 A satellite image of the damaged Sargodha air base runway hit by India. PTI CJI GAVAI TAKES CHARGE: President Droupadi Murmu administers the oath of office to Justice B R Gavai as the 52nd Chief Justice of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan. ANI PAGE5 Jaipur THEUNIONCabinetWednesday approved a joint venture betweenHCLandFoxconntosetup a chip assembly and packaging unit in Uttar Pradesh, making it the sixth project to receive approval under the government’s ambitious Rs 76,000-crore India Semiconductor Mission. The plant will be set up near Jewarairport,notfarfromNoida, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 The mission, the target CURRENTLY, INDIA has no operational commercial chip-making facility. The objective of the India Semiconductor Mission is to build a semiconductor and display ecosystem, and position India as a hub for electronics manufacturing and design.