Islamabad says the design of Kishanganga hydel project is not in line with the criteria laid down under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).

It claims that the project will disrupt water supplies to Pakistan.

India says the project design was well within parameters of the treaty.

Pakistan will raise the issue of India's alleged violation of the Indus Waters Treaty with the World Bank, a media report said today, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project in Jammu & Kashmir.
Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry told media that a four-member delegation led by Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Ashtar Ausaf Ali is in Washington to hold talks with the president of World Bank, Radio Pakistan reported.

He said that the issue of construction of the Kishanganga Dam will be discussed in the meeting.

Prime Minister Modi on Saturday inaugurated the Kishanganga hydroelectric power plant, amid protests from Pakistan which claims that the project on a river flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies.

Pakistan's foreign office on Friday voiced concern over the inauguration of the hydroelectric project, saying inauguration without resolution of dispute between the two countries will tantamount to violation of the Indus Waters 1960 that regulates the use of waters in the shared rivers.

Islamabad had been raising objections over the design of the hydel project, saying it is not in line with the criteria laid down under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) between the two countries. But, India says the project design was well within parameters of the treaty.

Courtesy: Times of India: PTI | May 20, 2018