Establishment starts looking into Kishenganga fiasco

According to top sources, members of the legal and technical team may face the music over the way the case was fought in The Hague court and more importantly the establishment will go deep into the rationale for appointment of Kamal Majidullah who was alien to the...

Kishanganga project: Victory claims cloud final arbitration award

During a press conference on Saturday, Pakistan’s Indus Water Commissioner Mirza Asif Baig declared that the final award was rendered in Pakistan’s favour. Indian officials, however, insisted that the final arbitration was in their favour. “The ICA has allowed India...

Indus Waters Treaty: Pak charges unfounded

In recent years, four hydroelectric power projects Ratle (850MW), Miyar (120MW), Lower Kalnai (48MW) and Pakul Dul (1,000MW, to be increased to 1,500MW)   initiated by India and being built on the western rivers, have propelled Pakistan’s ministry of foreign...

An unjustified resentment (Indus Water Treaty)

The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty is not perfect but represents the best that was possible in the circumstances that prevailed then. It cannot be changed till the time India-Pakistan relations improve. Read...

Indo-Pak talks on water sharing issue: no major headway

The 109th meeting came ahead of the September 29 meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Chenab is a major river of Jammu and Kashmir. It forms in Himachal...