*ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office warned on Friday that water issues can leadto a dangerous situation and that Pakistan wants peaceful resolution ofsuch problems as per spirit of **the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).*
Speaking at a weekly news briefing in the capital, Foreign OfficeSpokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal said World Bank has assured that theinternational agreement will not be breached.
He said Islamabad has been effectively raising the issue of India’scontroversial Kishanganga project to resolve it through a disputeresolution mechanism provided by the pact.
Lately, Pakistan sent a four-member delegation to World Bank inWashington to raise inauguration of Kishanganga hydropower plant by Indiain violation of the agreement.
Pakistan has opposed the project as it violates a World Bank-mediatedtreaty on the sharing of waters from the Indus and its tributaries uponwhich 80 percent of its irrigated agriculture depends.
New Delhi claims that IWT allows it to build ‘run-of-river’ hydel projectsthat do not change the course of the river and do not deplete the waterlevel downstream. Disagreeing with the Indian interpretation, Islamabadsays that the Kishanganga project not only violates the course of the riverbut also depletes its water level.