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Pak to approach World Bank to resolve Kishanganga Dam dispute with India | 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. |
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