Indus Water Treaty
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Indus Waters Treaty: India questions World Bank's decision to resolve Indo-Pak disputes | DETAILS
India | Feb 03, 2023, 07:33 AM ISTIndus Waters Treaty: Following Islamabad's "intransigence" in resolving disputes, India has also sent a notice to Pakistan seeking a review and modification of the 62-year-old IWT for the management of cross-border rivers.
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'Pak actions forced India': New Delhi sends notice to Islamabad to modify 1960's Indus Water Treaty
India | Jan 27, 2023, 12:06 PM ISTPakistan's actions have adversely impinged on the provisions of IWT and their implementation, and forced India to issue an appropriate notice for modification of IWT, they said.
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Indian projects fully compliant with provisions of Indus Water Treaty: India to Pakistan at PIC meet
India | Jun 01, 2022, 02:31 PM ISTThe discussion was held during PIC's 118th meeting, comprising Indus Commissioners of India and Pakistan, that concluded on Tuesday.
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India, Pakistan hold talks on Indus water sharing after two years
India | Mar 23, 2021, 11:46 AM ISTThe Indus Water Treaty (IWT) warrants the two commissioners to meet at least once a year, alternately in India and Pakistan.
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Indus Commissioners of India, Pak to meet in New Delhi on March 23-24
India | Mar 14, 2021, 04:49 PM ISTThis will be the annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission. Under the provisions of the Indus Water Treaty, both the commissioners are required to meet at least once a year alternately in India and Pakistan.
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Why continue Indus Water Treaty if Pakistan doesn't honour its spirit: Nitin Gadkari
India | Feb 25, 2019, 10:33 PM ISTAddressing a public meeting here, Gadkari said Pakistan should stop sponsoring terrorists, supporting terror outfits and sending terrorists into India, otherwise it would have to reel under shortage of water.
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From then to now: Inside the developments of 1960 Indus Water Treaty
India | Feb 22, 2019, 05:55 PM ISTThe Indus system comprises Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers. The basin is mainly shared by India and Pakistan with a small share for China and Afghanistan.
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Not concerned over India's plan to stop flow of water: Pakistan
World | Feb 22, 2019, 03:57 PM ISTThe response came hours after Union minister Nitin Gadkari said in New Delhi that India has decided to "stop" the flow of its share of water to Pakistan from rivers under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) after the ghastly Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
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Pakistan team to visit Chenab basin in Jammu and Kashmir next week under Indus Water Treaty
India | Jan 26, 2019, 06:43 PM ISTA Pakistani delegation will visit the Chenab river basin in Jammu and Kashmir for inspection from January 28 to 31, as mandated under the Indus Water Treaty, sources said.
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World Bank will offer new initiative on Indus Treaty dispute: Pakistan
World | Sep 25, 2018, 04:38 PM ISTIt 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
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'India rejects Pakistan's objections on 2 hydropower projects as talks conclude on Indus Waters Treaty'
World | Aug 30, 2018, 10:51 PM IST"It is a sensitive matter and we were conveyed (by the Foreign Office) not to speak on it. The Foreign Office will issue a statement in this regard," Shah said.
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India, Pak to resume talks on Indus Waters Treaty in Lahore this week
World | Aug 27, 2018, 12:17 PM ISTIndia's Indus Water Commissioner P K Saxena is expected to reach here today to begin the two-day discussions with his Pakistani counterpart Syed Mehr Ali Shah on Wednesday, Dawn quoted a government official as saying.
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No agreement with Pakistan on resolving Indus Waters dispute: World Bank
World | May 23, 2018, 11:51 AM ISTLast week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan had protested the inauguration.
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Indus Waters Treaty: Pakistan raises objections against J&K's Kishanganga hydroelectric project at World Bank
World | May 22, 2018, 11:50 AM ISTPakistan which claims that recently inaugurated Kishanganga hydroelectric project in J&K will disrupt water supplies in Pakistan as it is built on a river flowing into Pakistan
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Indus Water Treaty: Pakistan directs authorities asked to forcefully pursue with India, World Bank 'violations'
World | May 03, 2018, 03:52 PM ISTUnder the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty, the waters of the eastern rivers -- the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi -- had been allocated to India and that of the western rivers --the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab -- to Pakistan except for certain non-consumptive uses.
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India, Pakistan to discuss Indus waters in New Delhi on March 29-30
World | Mar 28, 2018, 06:36 PM ISTThe PIC is mandated to establish and maintain cooperative arrangements for the implementation of the treaty and to promote cooperation between the two sides in developing the Indus water systems.
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Indus Water Treaty can be resolved within its agreement: Pakistan PM Abbasi
World | Sep 21, 2017, 12:58 PM ISTThe Pakistan Prime Minister said there were provisions in the treaty on how to resolve the disputes.
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Indus water dispute: Indo-Pak talks fail to break deadlock over Ratle and Kishanganga projects
India | Sep 16, 2017, 03:02 PM ISTThe second round of discussions between the two countries, held on September 14 and 15 under the aegis of the World Bank, focused on resolving differences over Ratle and Kishanganga hydroelectric projects.
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India permitted to construct Kishanganga, Ratle projects under Indus Waters Treaty : World Bank
India | Aug 02, 2017, 09:32 AM ISTPakistan opposes the construction of the Kishanganga (330 megawatts) and Ratle (850 megawatts) hydroelectric power plants being built by India
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Indo-Pak talks over Indus Water Treaty held in spirit of goodwill, cooperation: World Bank
World | Aug 02, 2017, 06:55 AM ISTThe talks between Indian and Pakistani officials over the Indus Water Treaty took place in a spirit of goodwill and cooperation, the World Bank has said