Iftikhar Gilani

NEW DELHI, Jan 27: The Centre is planning to go ahead with constructing another mega power project on river Chenab in Doda district after the completion of Baglihar.

James Bond films have an overdose of action, but they have one thing that is close to reality

SRINAGAR: Few days after prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh commissioned the state's first 450 MW Baglihar power project, Pakistan has once again objected to the construction of the power project and has said that 23,000 cusecs of water to fill Baglihar dam has reduced the flow of water in the river Chenab.

The Pakistan president, Asif Ali Zardari, has warned a brewing row with India over the waters of the Chenab river in the disputed Kashmir region could harm improving ties between the old rivals.

The prospect of being held accountable for blowing up Rs 450 crore on an unfeasible project seems to be prompting a powerful section within railways to seek the revival of the four-year old proposal o

The government on Tuesday announced that it would drag the recalcitrant Indian government into international arbitration if appropriate compensation in the shape of money, or water, was not given to Pakistan for the damage done to matured crops in Punjab due to stoppage of Chenab water in August.

Nirupama Subramanian

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan says India has blocked the Chenab waters from flowing across to its side, endangering its kharif crop as a result.

Water and Power Secretary Ismail Qureshi told Geo television that the matter had already been taken up with New Delhi through the Indian High Commission, and the government was expecting a response in a couple of days.

An inter-departmental meeting is scheduled for Tuesday (today) in the Ministry of Water and Power to discuss legal options against India for violating the precept of the Indus water treaty by stopping Chenab water in August to fill Baglihar Dam, built in occupied Kashmir.

"We do not have any complaint against India at present as water is coming in accordance with historical trends. Basically, India had stopped water in the middle of August," said Jamat Ali Shah, Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters (PCIW) while talking to Business Recorder from Lahore.

An inter-departmental meeting is scheduled for Tuesday (today) in the Ministry of Water and Power to discuss legal options against India for violating the precept of the Indus water treaty by stopping Chenab water in August to fill Baglihar Dam, built in occupied Kashmir.

"We do not have any complaint against India at present as water is coming in accordance with historical trends. Basically, India had stopped water in the middle of August," said Jamat Ali Shah, Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters (PCIW) while talking to Business Recorder from Lahore.