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Pak serves legal notice to India over Kishanganga dam construction issue | Pakistan has served a legal notice to India concerning the long pending issue of construction of the Kishaganga dam over the river Indus. The Nation reported a private television
channel, as saying that the notice has been sent by the Water and Power Ministry
in consultation with the Indus Water commission with an aim to bring the issue
before the World Bank's court of arbitration. It is worth mentioning here that
the notice has been served at a time when Pakistan's Indus Water Commissioner
Jamaat Ali Shah is scheduled to visit India on May 29th to participate in the
annual Indus Water Commission meeting. 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 the 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. It also claims 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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