Pakistan unable to get stay order against Indian hydro project

Pakistan failed to obtain a stay order from the International Court of Arbitration against India’s construction of the Kishanganga Hydroelectric Power Project.

Pakistan said the project would seriously hinder its own Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Project.

The court has asked India to submit the report of environmental effect caused by the construction of KHEP on September 7.

Pakistan has been objecting to the construction of KHEP project on the Ganga River in Kashmir, which is called the Neelum upon entering Pakistan. Pakistan had proposed both the establishment of a court of arbitration and the appointment of neutral experts to resolve the Kishanganga dam dispute with India as soon as possible.

“The establishment of a court for arbitration and the appointment of neutral experts would be proposed to India, as New Delhi had failed to satisfy Pakistan in matters related to the dispute during negotiations between the Indus water commissioners of the two countries,” Pakistan Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah had said.

The Indus Waters Treaty, inked between India and Pakistan in 1960, provides appointment of a neutral expert by the World Bank as a last option to resolve water related issues between both the countries.