Ruling on Indian dam next week
Afp, New Delhi
An expert appointed by the World Bank will announce Monday whether a controversial dam India is building in the disputed Kashmir region violates a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan, the bank said. Pakistan fears the one-billion-dollar project could deprive its wheat-bowl state of Punjab of vital irrigation water. It says the plant violates a 45-year-old water-sharing treaty brokered by the World Bank. But India says the Baglihar hydroelectric project on the Chenab River does not violate the pact and could go a long way to ending routine 12-hour blackouts plaguing the Himalayan state. The decision will be handed down in Bern, Switzerland, the World Bank said in a statement.
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