Pak plans to approach WB over Kishanganga project: report

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Pak plans to approach World Bank over Kishanganga project: report
Islamabad, Nov 8, (PTI):
Pakistan plans to approach the World Bank seeking appointment of a neutral expert to settle differences with India on the Kishanganga hydropower project instead of moving a court of arbitration, a media report said on Sunday.

A neutral expert appointed by the World Bank is a "top most priority" for Pakistan after it received a "discouraging response while exercising bilateral channels" to address differences over the project being built in Jammu and Kashmir, 'The News' daily quoted its sources as saying. The sources claimed the project would divert the river Jhelum's waters. The process of the Permanent Indus Waters Commission appointing two negotiators from each side had proved to be "time buying moves of India," the sources alleged. It would be "futile" for Pakistan to opt for the court of arbitration comprising two nominees from each country and three other experts as the country can "ill afford to give more and more time" to India to go ahead with the project, they said. The paper also quoted Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit as saying that "we are examining the possibility of invoking the option of (appointing a) neutral expert instead of the court of arbitration." He said the Pakistan government is working on the issue with experts on an urgent basis as "India was wasting time." The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 provides for the appointment of a neutral expert by the World Bank as a last option to resolve water-related disputes between India and Pakistan. Since last year, Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of diverting its share of river waters but the charges have been dismissed by New Delhi. "We do not believe that India will agree within one month to nominate its members for the court of arbitration. This is too serious a matter and Pakistan cannot afford to sit back and allow India to continue violating the Indus Waters Treaty," Basit said. He did not give the timeframe for approaching the World Bank for appointing the neutral expert.

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By: Guest
On: 08 Nov 2009 08:36 pm

What a pathetic country this Pakistan is! People are killing each other in their own country and these idiots are all bent on blaming India for one thing or the other. Let the morons of Pakistan honor (if they know the meaning of that word) the other treatises and agreements with India before making these claims. If they cannot "afford to sit back and allow India to violate the Indus waters treaty" .... let them go and do what they are best at doing ... training more morons and try to infiltrate India .... while in all the time their own countrymen are blown up by militants who were trained by the ISI !

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