Zardari warns India: Water treaty breach to damage relations

“However, our national interests are equally important and our government is committed to protect them. We hope that the Indian Prime Minister would remember agreements on the judicious sharing of the Chenab waters and New Delhi would look to better relations with Pakistan,” he said.

APP adds: Pakistan would be compelled to seek the  intervention of neutral experts if blatant violations of Sindh-Tass Treaty continues by the Indians, Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah said Sunday.

In a telephonic conversation with a private TV channel, he urged the Indians to continue water supplies to Marala as per Indus Water Treaty inked between the two countries in 1960.

Baglihar hydroelectric power project is a run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab in the southern Doda district in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.

He said India filled Baglihar Dam in the month of August thus creating water shortage in Pakistan.

He hoped that if the dam was operated in line with the treaty, then Pakistan would have no water shortage due to this project on the Chenab River.