Pak to approach World Bank to resolve Kishanganga Dam dispute with India
April 26th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANILahore, Apr 26(NI): Pakistan Government has reportedly decided to approach the World Bank to resolve the Kishanganga Dam dispute with India as soon as possible.
Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah said the government has decided to contact the World Bank, as no positive result had emerged despite several rounds of talks with India, The Daily Times reports.
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), inked between India and Pakistan in 1960, provides appointment of a neutral expert by the World Bank as a last option to resolve water related issues between both the countries.
Pakistan has been blaming India for an unsporting attitude during bilateral talks, which were initiated to resolve the impending water dispute.
Pakistan has been opposing the construction of the Kishanganga hydropower project on Ganga River in Kashmir, which is called Neelum upon entering Pakistan. Pakistan has said that the diversion of the waters of the Neelum is not allowed under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, and it will face a 27 per cent water deficit, when the project gets completed.
The reduced water flow in the Neelum would not yield the required results of the proposed 1.6 billion dollars Neelum-Jehlum hydropower project that has been designed to generate 969 MW of electricity.
It has said that India has almost completed a 22-kilometre long tunnel to divert Kishanganga waters to Wullar Lake in Jammu and Kashmir. (ANI)
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