NEW DELHI: India feels Pakistan should improve its storage capacity to ensure adequate water flow during the lean season instead of raising the pitch over sharing of river waters.
Pakistan has sought changes in the design of the Nimmo-Bazgo hydropower project being built by India in Jammu and Kashmir even as the two sides agreed at the three-day annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission, which started in Lahore on Sunday, to use telemetry and satellite systems to monitor water flow and consumption in shared rivers.
The sharing of the Indus waters stands settled by the Indus Waters Treaty 1960, and the nature of the sharing is such that no disputes can arise on this matter. Questions of the conformity of Indian projects to the provisions of the treaty can indeed arise, but the agreement provides institutional mechanisms for dealing with them.
London: Pakistan is reportedly considering to rope in a Pakistan-born London lawyer, Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad, in the event it approaches International Court of Arbitration to arbitrate on India
With Pakistan raising the river water sharing issue during the Foreign Secretary level talks over a fortnight ago, officials here are trying to get to the bottom of the reason behind Islamabad
