‘Pakistan to move WB against India over water issue’: Pakistan Link

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will go to the World Bank (WB) to seek compensation from India for obstructing water flow in the Chenab River and design defects in Baglihar Dam, Indus Water Commissioner (IWC) Jamaat Ali Shah said on Saturday. He was talking to Indian reporters at the Indra Gandhi Airport before leaving for Pakistan. He said he had visited the Doda district in Indian-held Kashmir and found several defects in Baglihar Dam. Shah said India had taken 200,000 cusecs of Pakistani water in September ‘in utter violation of the set laws’, hurting Pakistan’s Kharif crops. The two rounds of talks had ended inconclusively, he said, adding India was sticking to its ‘traditional obduracy and inflexibility’. “Talks were held with the Indian officials at length, but I am not satisfied.”

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