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Summary International Court of Arbitration (ICA) upheld the stay order in Indias Kishanganga project case.
A two-member team, comprising Pakistan’ Indus Water Treaty Commissioner Asif Baig Mirza and advisor to PM on water resources Kamal Majeed Ullah, attended the proceeding of the International Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands which lasted for 10 days.While talking to Dunya News on return from the Netherlands, a member of Pakistan team said that the ICA will announce the verdict of controversial Kishanganga hydro-electricity project case in December.He said that the head of the ICA, former Chief Justice of US Stephen M Schwebel upheld the stay order which was granted on an appeal filed by Pakistan that India was diverting the flow of the river and violating Indus Water Treaty (IWT) between the two countries.The counsel representing Pakistan, James Crawford, Van Lu Ie and Simpson Woodsworth, during their arguments raised objection on the diversion of the Kishanganga River near Bandipura in Held Kashmir and and installation of the gate of power house at a lower level and demanded changes in the design of the project of forfeiting it.Pakistan fears that the Kishanganga dam would rob it of 15 per cent water share – a violation of the Indus Water Treaty.With the present design of the production of electricity from Pakistan’s Neelum-Jhelum hydro-electricity project will be decreased by 30 percent and a part of Neelum Valley will lose 2,000 cusecs of water permanently.
