PAKISTAN Pakistan, India agree to redesign Miyar Hydroelectric project

Pakistan and India have reached an agreement to redesign Miyar Hydroelectric project, Radio Pakistan reported on Tuesday.

The agreement came at the end of a two-day meeting of Indus Water Commissioners of Pakistan and India on issues pertaining to water in the capital city.

Mirza Asif Saeed led the Pakistani delegation while the Indian side was represented by PK Saxena.

It was also decided that the Lower Kalnai and Pakal Dul projects will be inspected again.

After a hiatus of two years and ‘water war’ threats from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pakistan and India on Monday resumed talks over water issues with Islamabad welcoming the development but vowing to defend its rights.

The two-day talks of Indus water commissioners of the two countries marked the first formal engagement between the arch rivals since the relationship between them nosedived in September last year after an attack on an Indian military base in disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir.

Under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), India is bound to hold such meetings with Pakistan. But the current meeting of the Indus water commissioners is significant in the sense that Premier Modi last year threatened to revoke the water accord with Pakistan.

Source: The Express Tribune