Islamabad, Oct 23: A team of Pakistani experts which visited the Baglihar Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir has reportedly concluded that the project "violated" the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between the two countries. The three-member team headed by Pakistan commissioner for Indus waters Syed Jamaat Ali Shah was apparently convinced that the power project was a "violation" of the treaty, a Pak daily quoted Pakistan High Commission officials in New Delhi as saying. "The team has returned to delhi and they will go home tomorrow by the land route. They have found that the various details of the dam clearly do not match the map they were given by the Indian side," it quoted a Pakistani diplomat as saying. Pakistan has been pressing for a visit of its experts team to the project site and threatened to go for arbitration under the aegis of world bank, which brokered the treaty under which Pakistan has been given riparian rights over rivers Indus, Chenab and Jhelum.
Pakistan in the past has raised objections about the height of the dam and the water storage capacity of the 450 MW power project. Bureau Report