Pakistan in Media

NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan are racing to complete the 330MW Kishanganga and the 960MW Neelam-Jhelum power projects, respectively, as the Indus Water Treaty does not permit for both projects to operate simultaneously.

The plans made available to Daily Times reveal the Indian project would divert the River Neelam to Wullar Lake, leaving very little water for the Pakistani project, which is a mere 70 kilometres downstream from the Indian Kishanganga project. According to the Indus Water Treaty, the project commissioned first would be accorded top priority. In the case of Pakistan, this would likely mean that the Neelam-Jhelum project would have to be abandoned, as the Kishanganga project would leave very little water for Pakistan to use.
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Daily Times, Pakistan, Thursday, July 23, 2009
The only context in which Obama has mentioned India thus far was the need to resolve Kashmir so as to find a way out of the West’s troubles in Afghanistan. Talk of a strategic partnership between the two countries has all but disappeared

The long-awaited visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to India provided the usual public affirmation of “India being a vital partner of the US in building a stable international order.” But there was no mistaking that the thrill is gone. The cooling of the strategic partnership built by the Bush administration, which conferred on India de facto nuclear weapon state status, introduces new uncertainties in Asia. With the balance of power in Asia shifting amid talk of a G-2 between the economically hobbled US and the rising giant China, a loosening of the Indo-US bond could produce unpredictable consequences far beyond the Indian Ocean.
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Daily Times, Friday, July 03, 2009
Because of its importance as a water source for the most populous parts of the world, the Himalayan and Tibetan region will be the bellwether for any progress that can be made on this vital resource issue

During a recent visit to the Netherlands, I had an opportunity to interact with the Dalai Lama at a seminar of experts on water security organised by the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. Sitting around a table with around fifteen scholars from Asia and Europe, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism called the plateau a “third pole” for water availability on the planet. The conversation was meant to be apolitical and to focus on science as a touchstone for cooperation. The Dalai Lama humorously commented that it is time we protect mountains not just because they are “sacred” but because “science tells us they are important”.
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