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India, Pak to hold more talks to resolve water disputes | In order to resolve the long pending water issues between them, India and Pakistan have agreed on a 'roadmap' and decided to hold two additional meetings, besides a routine meeting due in May, over the next six months. Pakistan's Indus Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah said the two
sides have decided to hold one of the additional meetings by the end of March,
and the other by the end of June to expedite the pace of deliberations to end
the dispute. "The decision is the biggest achievement made during five days of
deliberations," The Dawn quoted Shah, as saying. The decision was taken on the
last of a five-day visit of a three-member Indian delegation. The three-member
Indian team of Permanent Commission on Indus Waters (PCIW) headed by Auranga Nathan
inspected the Sutlej, Ravi and Bias river sites. Shah said the Indian delegation
had agreed that settlement of all water disputes must be time-bound because open-ended
talks were counter-productive and gave rise to confusion and frustration. Later,
talking to reporters at the Lahore airport before leaving for India, Nathan rejected
the notion that the water dispute between India and Pakistan could lead to war.
"After all the two countries have signed an international treaty which includes
elaborate dispute resolution mechanism. They not only committed to the treaty
provisions but also regularly invoke different provisions to resolve disputes.
Under such circumstances, there was hardly any chance of war between Pakistan
and India on water issues," Nathan said. |
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