Highlights 1 India clears six hydropower projects in Kashmir. 3 India to attend water treaty meeting this month in Lahore. India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15 billion 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. "It seems that finally India has realized the importance of this mechanism under the IWT (Indus Waters Treaty) for resolving water disputes related to the Indus water and its tributaries." Terrorism had to stop and India must fully utilise the economic potential available to it within the Indus treaty.

Source: India Today March 16, 2017 08:26 UTC