Even as India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over the Kishanganga hydro power project in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indus Commissioners of both countries on Monday looked set to resolve the differences over two other hydro-power projects in J-K.
The projects, Uri-II and Chutak, are in Jammu and Kashmir
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New Delhi: In a significant development, Pakistan on Monday withdrew its objection to the construction of Uri-II and Chutak hydel power projects in Jammu and Kashmir.
Officials from India and Pakistan will meet here next week for the annual meeting of the Indus Water Commission. During the three-day meeting, beginning on May 31, the two sides will attempt to bridge differences over the construction of hydel projects on the tributaries of the Indus river in Jammu and Kashmir, besides firming up the agenda for the next year as per the 1960 Indus water treaty.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sent a note verbale to India on May 17 on the disputed Kishanganga project, clearly indicating its intention to set up a Court of Arbitration as provided in the dispute settlement mechanism under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).
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
Trudging down the Leh bazaar, Ishay Tundup, an elderly farmer, holds up a bag full of green vegetables. An ordinary sight surely but it was far from that. This 70-year-old man had grown vegetables all his life. He had never needed to buy them from a bazaar. Tundup is one of the many farmers who suffered the effects of drought in Ladakh last summer, a phenomenon unheard of.
