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Pakistan to move International Court of Arbitration on Kishanganga project | Pakistan has decided to approach the International
Court of Arbitration against the construction of the controversial Kishanganga Hydropower Project by India in alleged violation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.
Professor Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad, an international legal expert of Pakistan origin,
would lead the legal team at the International Court of Arbitration. He will be
assisted by officials of ministries of water and power, law and justice and foreign
affairs and Pakistan's permanent commissioner to the Indus Commission and a few
Pakistani lawyers, The Dawn reports. The sources said that a group of government
officials had recommended that James Crawford be hired for the job because he
had represented Pakistan before the neutral expert when Pakistan took its case
on the controversial Baglihar project on the Chenab a few years ago. However,
the Prime Minister's Adviser on Water Resources, Kamal Majidullah, opposed the
move saying the outcome of Baglihar case was generally not in Pakistan's favour.
The government is estimated to have allocated about 10 dollars million for the
case. The sources said that India had almost completed the 22-km tunnel to divert
Kishanganga (Neelum) waters to Wullar Lake in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty
and was working to complete the 330MW project by 2016. If completed, the project
would severely affect Pakistan's rights over the river, reduce the river flows
into Pakistan and minimise its power generation capacity of the 969MW Neelum Jhelum
Hydropower project near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. They said that
Pakistan's Permanent Indus Water Commissioner had requested the government in
March last year to quickly take up the case with the International Court of Arbitration
after all options at the level of Permanent Indus Commission had been exhausted.
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