Pakistan has asked India to immediately suspend work on two hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir and agree on the constitution of an arbitration court to resolve the water dispute.
According to a report in ‘Dawn’, a rare joint sitting of the two committees of the National Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday.
The resolution adopted by the committee on foreign affairs, water and power, called upon the World Bank to constitute a court of arbitration to adjudicate on issues raised by Pakistan against India’s ongoing construction of Kishanganga and Ratle hydro projects.
Pakistan approached World Bank and objected to the construction of dams on the western rivers by India.
Pakistan urged the World Bank a facilitator of the IWT, to stop India from going ahead with the construction so that the treaty could be followed smoothly in future.
“We will not let India violate the treaty. We have alrea¬¬dy requested the World Bank to appoint chairman of the arbitration court,” Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry told the two committees.