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India Fast-Tracks Kashmir Hydro Projects That Could Affect Pakistan Water Supplies

India Fast-Tracks Kashmir Hydro Projects That Could Affect Pakistan Water Supplies

by The Daily Eye Team March 17 2017, 4:28 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secs

India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15bn in Kashmir in recent months, three federal and state officials said, ignoring warnings from Islamabad that power stations on rivers flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies. The swift approval of projects that had languished for years came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested last year that sharing the waterways could be conditional on Pakistan clamping down on anti-India militants that New Delhi says it shelters. Pakistan has opposed some of these projects before, saying they violate a World Bank-mediated treaty on the sharing of the Indus river and its tributaries upon which 80% of its irrigated agriculture depends.

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