India has handed over technical data relating to Wular Barrage to Pakistan after resisting the issue for 27 years.
The Indus Water Commission has handed over the data to NESPAK for critical evaluation.
India had agreed to hand over all technical data to Pakistan, during the May dialogue with Indian secretary irrigation in Islamabad, as Pakistan had expressed its severe reservations over what was a severe violation of Indus water treaty, since India would be storing 3,24,000 acre feet of water in this barrage, causing shortage of water in Jhelum River.
Pakistan would be informing India about its final verdict after a month after carefully scrutinizing the issue.
It is time for India to walk out of IWT as Pakistan seems to using it as a weapon against India to delay, stall, alter India's hydroelectric projects. It is too much of an interference in India's internal affairs. Now the ICA has refused to order stay orders on Kishanganga project and before Pakistan has lost its case on Baghlihar Dam and they appear to have learnt nothing from these 2 embrassments. The fact is this that Pakistan is misusing the treaty to stall development in Kashmir as the darkness and backwardness suits Pakistan's dirty games in Kashmir and at the same time demonizing India in the eyes of its own publc. It is not good for relationship and this propaganda will recoil on Pakistan itself.
Let Pakistan renegotiate a new treaty or get whatever is due to it under the internation law for a lower riparian state.
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