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Baglihar report: Pak alleges violations
Pak Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah alleged the project violated the 1960 water pact between the two nations.
Pakistan Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah, who recently led a team to Baglihar hydro-power project site in Jammu and Kashmir, has submitted his report to the government, alleging that the Indian project violated the 1960 water pact between the two nations.
The report highlighted alleged "Indian violations" of the Indus Water Treaty in the project's design, the Daily Times reported here on Saturday. Shah, however, refused to disclose the report's major features, the paper added.
Shah headed a five-member Pakistani delegation to inspect the project site from July 23 to July 30.
The report, given to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, would also be submitted to Professor Raymond Lafitte, the neutral expert appointed by World Bank on the matter, the paper said.
"After Pakistan submits its case to the neutral expert, India will submit a counter case so that the neutral expert can deliberate without bias," a Pakistani official said.
Lafitte will inspect Baglihar site in October, he said adding, the expert would decide, after inspection, whether the issue was a difference or a dispute.
If it was adjudged a dispute, then the World Bank and other international bodies would form a Court of Arbitration. The bank would appoint three members of the seven-member court, Pakistan two and India two in case it was adjudged as a dispute, he said.
