Was the Indus Water Treaty Nehru’s peace wager or India 'second Partition'?

When Prime Minister

Jawaharlal Nehru

and

Pakistan

’s President Ayub Khan signed the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in Karachi on September 19, 1960, it was hailed as a landmark of reconciliation. Nehru called it “a memorable occasion”, saying the true significance of the deal lay not only in the irrigation potential it promised, but in “the spirit of trust” it embodied.
“Whatever scientific advances and technological gains, we still depend upon good earth and good water,” he observed, noting that the pact ensured “an abundance of good water to parched farmlands in both countries.”