ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has failed to get stay from the International
Court of Arbitration (ICA) against India’s construction of the
Kishanganga Hydroelectric Power Project (KHEP).
According to
media reports, At the ICA hearing at The Hague, Pakistan aimed to
obtain a stay order to put a halt to the KHEP, which it said would
seriously hinder its own Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Project (NHJEP).
However, it failed to get stay against India’s KHEP construction.
According
to sources, the arbitrary court judge asked India to submit a report on
environmental effect caused by the construction of the dam.
The
Indian delegation informed the court that it would submit the report on
October 7. However, the court 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. Last year, Pakistan instituted proceedings in the ICA to
resolve the dispute with India.
Earlier in November 2009,
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 (IWT), 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. Online
