India agrees to give more data on western river projects to Pakistan: Report
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As per a report, India has agreed to provide Pakistan with more information on western river projects.
India has agreed to provide additional data on several western hydropower projects to Pakistan during an annual meeting between the officials of the two countries held in Islamabad under the Permanent Commission on Indus Waters (PCIW), a media report said on Thursday.
The three-day meeting between the two commissioners of PCIW completed discussions on all agenda items on Wednesday. The talks were held in a very cordial environment and the final outcome of crucial parleys is expected to be announced on Thursday.
According to the Dawn newspaper, Pakistan raised objections regarding 10 projects including Kulan Ramwari, Feb-II, Tamasha Hydro, Baltikulan, Darbuk Shyok, Nummu Chilling, Kargil Hunderman, Phagla and Mandi HEP.
Nine of them are in the small power project category of 25MW and below. On these smaller projects, India had shared some data that was unacceptable to Islamabad because of gaps in the manner and technical charts some of them were illegible, it said.
The Indian side explained that the provincial and state governments normally lacked in maintaining design and engineering details in the matter of small projects but would get back to the relevant institutions and agencies to update documents as required under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, the report said.
Pakistan provided a list of 15-20 additional objections to these projects to be addressed by India, it said.
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