India- Pakistan permanent Indus Water Commission talks are set to begin in New Delhi later on Sunday afternoon. The four-day talks will focus on sharing of river waters. AIR correspondent adds that the representatives of the two countries will also exchange flood data and annual reports and talk about future programmes and plan any visits that may be required to project sites on either side. Ahead of the talks, India today strongly denied the Pakistani charges that it is being deprived of its share of the common waters. Water resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said in New Delhi that these statements are aimed at diverting the attention of their people from Islamabad's inefficient use of the vital resource. He asserted that New Delhi has never deprived Pakistan of its share of water and had no intention to do so ever. His statement comes in the backdrop of Pakistan's threat to move the World Bank for arbitration over Kishenganga power project in Jammu and Kashmir, which it alleges violates the 1960 Indus Water Treaty as water would be diverted.<br/><br/>
News On AIR | May 30, 2010 1:53 PM
Indus Water talks to begin in New Delhi today