ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Friday rejected media reports regarding Indianproposal for modification in the Indus Waters Treaty, the water-sharingagreement between nuclear neighbours in South Asia.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch issued the statement as aCourt of Arbitration in the Hague conducted first hearing on Pakistan’sobjections to the controversial designs of Kishanganga and RatleHydroelectric Projects.
The spokesperson said the Court of Arbitration had been set up under therelevant provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty and such media reportsshould not divert attention from the important proceedings of this Court.
The first two-day hearing will continue to Saturday as Pakistan hasreservations on the designs of the 330-megawatt Kishenganga and850-megawatt Ratle hydropower projects on the Jhelum and Chenab rivers.
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Pakistan is of the view that construction of the projects with its owndesign would damage the irrigation system in the Punjab province.
Under the Indus Water Treaty, which was brokered by the World Bank in 1960,the Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi were allocated to India while the waters ofIndus, Jhelum, and Chenab were allocated to Pakistan.
