‘Baglihar power project violates Indus treaty’

A team of Pakistani experts which visited the Baglihar power project in Jammu and Kashmir has reportedly concluded that the project ‘‘violated’’ the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between the two countries. The three-member team was apparently convinced that the power project was a ‘‘violation’’ of the treaty, Dawn quoted Pakistan High Commission officials in New Delhi as saying.

‘‘They have found that the various details of the dam clearly do not match the map they were given by the Indian side,’’ it quoted a Pakistani diplomat as saying.

Pakistan has been pressing for a visit of its experts team to the project site and threatened to go for arbitration under the World Bank, which brokered the treaty.

Pakistan was given riparian rights over rivers Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. (PTI)