World Bank will offer new initiative on Indus Treaty dispute: Pakistan
Tuesday - September 25, 2018 12:06 pm ,
Category : BUSINESS
United Nations Sep 25 (IANS) The World Bank would soon approach India and Pakistan with a fresh initiative to resolve the Indus Water Treaty dispute its President Jim Yong Kim has told Islamabad s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi according to a statement from Pakistan s UN Mission.
It said that Qureshi met Jim at the UN on Monday and complained to him about India s Kishan Ganga and Ratle projects asserting that they were violations of the 1960 treaty.
Under the provisions of the Indus Water Treaty 1960 waters of the eastern rivers - Sutlej Beas and Ravi - had been allocated to India and the western rivers - the Indus Jhelum and Chenab - to Pakistan except for certain non-consumptive uses for India.
--IANS ksk/sed
It said that Qureshi met Jim at the UN on Monday and complained to him about India s Kishan Ganga and Ratle projects asserting that they were violations of the 1960 treaty.
Under the provisions of the Indus Water Treaty 1960 waters of the eastern rivers - Sutlej Beas and Ravi - had been allocated to India and the western rivers - the Indus Jhelum and Chenab - to Pakistan except for certain non-consumptive uses for India.
--IANS ksk/sed
