Bushra Ansari has teamed up with sisters Asma Abbas and Neelum Ahmad Bashir for the track “Humsaye maa jaye”, a song which talks about unnecessary divisions between the neighbouring countries.
Asma and Bushra perform the track and Neelum has written it, the Dawn reported.
Bushra and Asma play Indian and Pakistani neighbours respectively, who are kept apart not just by a wall but the animosity between the two countries.
In their lyrics, they hint towards the fact that the average Pakistani and Indian wants peace but it is the politics and war-mongering that keeps them apart.
This is the first video that has been uploaded on Bushra’s YouTube account.
They have described their release as “a music video that goes beyond war and borders to the hearts of people living so close, and yet so far away.” According to Samaa TV, Bushra had shared in a recent BBC interview that people have shown immense love for the song. “My inbox is filled with viewers’ feedbacks who say the song is the voice of their soul,” she said.
US findings ‘contradict’ India’s claim that it shot down Pak’s jet on Feb 27
US count of Pak”s F-16s fighter jets found none of them missing
Washington, April 5
A US count of the F-16s with Pakistan has found that none of them are “missing” and all the fighter planes were “present and accounted for”, according to a report in a prominent American magazine.
The finding by the US on the ground in Pakistan “directly contradicts” India’s claim that its air force shot down an F-16 fighter jet during an aerial dogfight on February 27.
The Indian Air Force on February 28 displayed pieces of the AMRAAM missile, fired by a Pakistani F-16, as evidence to “conclusively” prove that Pakistan deployed US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets during an aerial raid targeting Indian military installations in Kashmir.
Pakistan had categorically said that no F-16 fighter jets were used and denied that one of its planes had been downed by the IAF.
According to the Foreign Policy magazine, Pakistan invited the United States to physically count its F-16 planes after the incident as part of an end-user agreement signed when the foreign military sale was finalised.
“A US count of Pakistan’s F-16 fleet has found that all the jets are present and accounted for, a direct contradiction to India’s claim that it shot down one of the fighter jets during a February clash,” Lara Seligman of the magazine reported on Thursday.
The count of the F-16 fighter planes in Pakistan has been completed, and “all aircraft were present and accounted for,” an unnamed defence official was quoted as saying by the magazine.
The Department of Defence did not immediately respond to a question on its count of F-16 fighter jets in Pakistan.
“As details come out, it looks worse and worse for the Indians,” MIT professor Vipin Narang told Foreign Policy magazine.
“It looks increasingly like India failed to impose significant costs on Pakistan, but lost a plane and a helicopter of its own in the process,” he said.
Generally, in such agreements, the US requires the receiving country to allow its officials to inspect the equipment regularly to ensure it is accounted for and protected, the news report said.
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after the suicide bomber of JeM killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on February 14.
India launched a counter-terror operation against a JeM training camp in Balakot. The next day, Pakistan Air Force retaliated and downed a MiG-21 in an aerial combat and captured its pilot, who was handed over to India on March 1. PTI
MiG-27 crashes, 6 jets lost this year already IAF operating at its lowest strength
he wreckage of a MiG-27 which crashed at Sirohi near Jodhpur in Rajasthan on Sunday. The jet took off from Uttarlai Air Force Station in Barmer for a routine sortie at 11.27 am and crashed around 11.45 am some 120 km south of Jodhpur. PTI
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New Delhi, March 31
The Indian Air Force (IAF), which is operating at its lowest strength of fighter jets, has lost six jets so far this year, including the one downed by Pakistan in the February 27 dogfight over Nowshera in Jammu and Kashmir.
A MiG-27 upgraded version jet, which had taken off from Uttarlai Air Force Station, crashed in Sirohi district near Jodhpur today. While the pilot ejected safely, a court of inquiry has been ordered. This is the second IAF jet to have crashed this month.
This means, the IAF is losing two jets every month and the new accretions, including the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, are just not enough to prevent the slide in numbers.
Crashes occur due to multiple reasons, one being the age of MiG-21 and MiG-27 jets, which the IAF is flying for want of newer options.
The IAF is now operating at its lowest strength of 31 fighter squadrons — around 16-18 planes in each. The Cabinet Committee on Security has mandated 42 squadrons for a simultaneous two-front war scenario with Pakistan and China.
Even the addition of 36 Rafale and 123 Tejas jets projected over the next eight years will not help the IAF stem the downward spiral.
Over the next four-five years, around 110 planes of MiG-21 and MiG-27 series are slated to retire.
The year began with a Jaguar jet crash in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district, in which the pilot ejected safely.
On February 1, two pilots were killed after a Mirage 2000 upgraded trainer version by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited crashed in Bengaluru. The plane was undergoing its acceptance trial by the IAF when both pilots ejected and one pilot crash-landed in the burning wreckage.
On February 12, a MiG-27 crashed near Pokhran range, while the pilot ejected safely.
Two weeks later, on February 27, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was shot over Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the air duel.
On March 8, a MiG-21 crashed near Bikaner, but the pilot ejected safely.
In February, two Hawk trainer jets, part of the ‘Surya Kiran’ aerobatic team, had crashed mid-air, killing a pilot. Also, on February 27, a Mi-17 helicopter ‘crashed’ killing six persons, including two pilots. It is being investigated if the helicopter was ‘accidentally’ shot down.
Hajin in shock over hostage incident Anger against the killing of 12-year-old boy erodes public sympathy for militants
Villagers look at the house which was damaged during an encounter at Hajin in Bandipora. Tribune Photo
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Tribune News Service
Hajin, March 24
In Hajin, which defended militants in recent years, people are angry over the abduction and killing of a young boy as foreign militants face serious erosion of public sympathy in this north Kashmir town which was fiercely supportive of them.
A rare hostage crisis on Friday in which two militants refused to let go of a 12-year-old boy — whose charred body was foundafter a gunfight, which ended when security forces blasted a house — has shocked Hajin where residents had shielded militants during manycounter-insurgency operations.
The act of holding the boy hostage now threatens to erode the sympathy which the militants enjoyed for the last three years, when the first group of mainly foreign militants settled in the densely populated town which has a tribe-like social structure.
“The militants committed a big blunder. Hajin had become a paradise for them. e protected them with our blood but they ruined it all,” a shopkeeper in Hajin’s main roundabout said.
Even as people talk with reverence about militants who stayed and died in Hajin, like a foreigner code-named Musaib, whose body locals had refused to handover to the police, the shock from the hostage incident is overwhelming.
Atif, the young boy who was taken hostage, was the only son of a well-settled orchardist, Mohammad Shafi Mir, and Shareefa Jan, who also have three daughters. His cousin Abid Hamid Mir, alias Arhaan, was among the two Hajin youthswho became militants in 2017, the first from Hajin in more than two decades. His uncle Hilal Ahmad Wani from Sopore was also a militant and had died in 2008.
A distraught Mohammad Shafi, who attended to the mourners at a tent pitched in a neighbour’s courtyard, told The Tribune he did not know why his son was kept hostage. “The militants came three or four days ago. I don’t know why they did it,” he said.
Hajin’s history is chequered with violence. It was the home to Kashmir’s most feared counter-insurgency militia commander, who turned the town into a base for his ruthless campaign against militants, their sympathisers and civilians.
The dreaded militia was disbanded by the government and its members hunted and killed, and, by 2013, Hajin was forgotten as conflict moved to different arenas.
More than a decade later, a group of foreign militants — which failed to reach south Kashmir where they were to reinforce a resurgent wave of populist militants — settled in Hajin in late 2015 and found sympathy, support and protection among its people, who were eager to shed the tag of association with the militia.
Ali, the militant who held the boy hostage, is believed to be either a part of that first group or the second group that followed into Hajin two years later.
In Hajin, like anywhere else in Kashmir, the new generation of militants is seen with reverence and their deaths are celebrated as martyrdoms. However, Ali, described by residents of Hajin as a seven-foot tall Baloch and athletic, was killed on an ignominious note.
“Satan had overtaken him,” said a resident of Hajin’s Mir Mohalla, where Ali had held the boy hostage. Another man, a next door neighbour of the Mir family, said the crime was unforgivable. “No matter what, he should have let the boy go,” he said.
Such was the impact that for the first time since 2016, there was no stone throwing in the area even as the gunfight dragged for two days. The shutdown that was later observed was specifically for Atif and not for Ali and another foreigner Hubaib, residents said.
Three days after the incident, neighbours volunteered on Sunday to clear the debris of Mohammad Shafi’s blasted home as anger against militants continued to deepen in the neighbourhood.
A young man from Mir Mohalla, who was sympathetic to militants, said Ali had become “frustrated and rogue” and wanted to marry the daughter of the house owner. “When it was refused, he lost his mind,” he said.
“They (militants) would knock on any door in Hajin and it would be opened for them because it was out of love. This will not happen now,” he said. “They came here for a cause and we trusted them but for now, the trust is broken,” he said.
Air Commodore Ajay Singh Pathania took over the command of the Jammu Air Force Station as the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) from Air Commodore SK Mishra today.
On this occasion, an impressive ceremonial parade by the Air Warriors was held at the Air Force Station in Jammu.
Air Commodore Pathania was commissioned in the Indian Air Force in 1986. An experienced flying instructor and a graduate of Defence Service Staff College, the officer has flying experience of about 6,000 hours on helicopter and trainer aircraft in India and abroad to his credit.
He has been the Flight Commander of three types of helicopters and commanded two types of helicopter units, which includes Chetak/Cheetah in the eastern sector of India and MI-25 in UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He has been the Chief Operational Officer of a premier IAF base and also commanded a Tactical Air Command in the eastern sector. The officer has also served as personal and operational staff at Air Headquarters. He was directly involved in major humanitarian assistance and disaster relief helicopter operations between 2012 and 2015, including in the Kashmir valley, Jammu and Uttarakhand, etc.
He was instrumental during the rescue and relief operations after the Nepal earthquake as well as the Yemen evacuation in April 2015. He has been the AOC and President of the Air Force Selection Board at Kolkata (Kanchrapara) and Dehradun.
He was awarded the Chief of the Air Staff commendation in 1995, AOC-in-C HQ Training Command commendation in 1997 and the Vishisht Seva Medal in January 2015.
SRINAGAR: A 25-year-old man, who had deserted army last year, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Pinglina village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday.
Officials said the gunmen attacked Showkat Ahmad Naik near his house at Pinglina. Naik died on the spot. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Initial reports said Showkat was a soldier of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI). However, the army later clarified that he was not a soldier but a deserter. Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said Showkat never took oath as a soldier.
“He was enrolled on January 15, 2018 in the Territorial Army. He went to the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) Regiment
Centre on March 21, 2018. On September 14, he went on three days leave and never returned,” the spokesman said, adding that Showkat was declared deserter on September 17 last year. Kalia said he was technically a civilian after being declared a deserter.
Soon after Showkat’s killing, a joint team of army and police
launched a search operation in the area to nab the assailants.
Last month, security forces had killed three Jaish-e-Mohammad militants during a gun battle at Pinglina village. One of the JeM militants killed in the encounter was believed to have played a crucial role in the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel.
Rafale deal: Govt hit back when first report came out, not once did it say papers stolen
Rafale deal: The Hindu report, citing a “Defence Ministry note” of November 2015, stated that the Ministry “raised strong objections to ‘parallel negotiations’ conducted by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with the French side” in the Rafale deal.
Rafale deal: Sitharaman said the note published along with the report did not include a noting by the then Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, who had negated the concerns. (file)
In the Supreme Court Wednesday, the Centre threatened action under the Official Secrets Act against two publications claiming their reports on the Rafale fighter deal were based on documents “stolen” from the Ministry of Defence.
But on February 8 — the day The Hindu newspaper published a report citing official notings and news agency ANI put out the same note with more notings — Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while countering the contents of The Hindu report, made no mention of any “stolen” document when she spoke in Lok Sabha.
The Hindu report, citing a “Defence Ministry note” of November 2015, stated that the Ministry “raised strong objections to ‘parallel negotiations’ conducted by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with the French side” in the Rafale deal.
Sitharaman said the note published along with the report did not include a noting by the then Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, who had negated the concerns.
“When the newspaper itself has chosen to say or point out in detail the then Defence Secretary’s comment which was meant for the attention of the then Raksha Mantri, it should have also put the reply of the Raksha Mantri which was also given in writing. If the newspaper wanted to bring the truth out, I would have thought that it was incumbent upon that newspaper to put the reply of the then Raksha Mantri also on record,” she said.
“The Opposition leaders who want a reply should now know what the reply of the then Raksha Mantri, Shri Parrikar was… The then Raksha Mantri, Shri Parrikar, had very clearly said in response to the file noting of the then Defence Secretary to ‘remain calm, there is nothing to worry, things are going all right’. To that extent, a detailed reply was given by the then Raksha Mantri, Shri Parrikar Ji … In all fairness, it should have been the duty of the newspaper which has published this to also put it on record the comment of the Defence Secretary and that the reply given was this,” she said.
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News agency ANI released another copy of the note that included Parrikar’s response.
Sitharaman charged the Opposition with damaging the country. “They are not interested in the Indian Air Force getting powerful. They are not interested in the Indian Air Force becoming empowered. They are working to the tunes of multinational corporate warfare. They are damaging this country. I charge them with that offence,” she claimed.
Terrorists training to attack from sea, warns Navy chief
Says reports point to new ‘brands of terror’; Navy rejects reports that its submarine tried to enter Pak waters
From page 1 NEW DELHI : Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba on Tuesday cautioned against possible terror attacks from sea even as authorities dismissed as “false propaganda” Pakistan’s claim it had thwarted an Indian submarine’s attempt to enter the country’s waters.
ANI■ Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba at the Indo-Pacific regional dialogue in New Delhi on Tuesday.In his inaugural address at the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue here, Lanba said, “We also have reports of terrorists being trained to carry out attacks with varying modus operandi, including through the medium of the sea.”
This “brand of terror”, he said, could become a global problem and the Indian security establishment is working to address the menace. He urged the global community to come together to eliminate all forms of terrorism while reminding an international audience of the “horrific scale” of the Pulwama suicide bombing on February 14 that killed 40 troops.
Reiterating the government’s stand that Pakistan was behind the attack, he said the Pulwama carnage was perpetrated by extremists aided and abetted by a state that seeks to destabilise India.
As chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, Lamba is India’s senior-most military commander, and his comments came against the backdrop of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
In a statement, the Indian Navy dismissed Pakistan’s claim that an Indian submarine had sought to enter Pakistani waters. “Over the past several days, we have witnessed Pakistan indulging in false propaganda and spread of misinformation. The Indian Navy does not take cognisance of such propaganda,” the statement said.
India’s military deployments “remain undeterred” and the navy “remains deployed as necessary to protect national maritime interests,” it added.
The Pakistan Navy claimed it used special skills to thwart the Indian submarine. Pakistan also released a purported video of an Indian submarine trying to sneak into its waters. The image showed the footage was recorded at 2035 hours on March 4.
People familiar with developments said all major powers with a presence in the Indian Ocean knew no Indian naval vessel was in the vicinity of Pakistani waters at that time.
The Pakistan Navy had also claimed the Indian submarine was not targeted in view of the country’s “policy of peace”.
People familiar with developments said the UN Operations and Crisis Centre had made it clear to members of the world body that enhanced monitoring measures adopted in view of the India-Pakistan tensions had been terminated. They said this was an indication that the United Nations was not buying into propaganda about an imminent conflict.
Pakistani jets made failed attempts to target Indian military installations in Rajauri sector on February 27 in retaliation for the Balakot air strike, carried out after the Pulwama attack and described by India as a “pre-emptive, non-military” strike.
A day after the aerial skirmish between the air forces in which both sides lost a jet each, the Indian military last week warned Pakistan it was prepared to respond swiftly and strongly to any misadventure.
The navy chief also drew attention to China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific to establish dominance, without naming the country.
“A unique blend of strategised financial aid, creeping territorial accretion, information operations, legal ambiguity and military assertiveness is being wielded by aspiring great powers to establish regional dominance,” he said, adding this had put the region’s delicate stability under renewed pressure.
Mounting debts have led countries such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan to give control of territories, which are of strategic significance, to China, in what global experts call Beijing’s “debt-trap diplomacy”.
Touching on the subject, Lanba said, “On multiple occasions over the last few years, we have witnessed such assistance being offered for projects with suspect financial viability, limited local participation, and unequal benefit for the recipients”. He emphasised that some projects were undertaken only to support political and strategic designs with almost no benefit to locals.
He said it was important to create an environment in which multiple options were available to countries looking for financial assistance to prevent them from getting “entrapped” by those with unscrupulous designs.
IAF: No Sukhoi shot down, Pak F-16 use ‘observed conclusively’
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force on Tuesday said that the deployment of F-16 aircraft by the Pakistan Air Force and multiple launches of AMRAAMs (advanced medium range air to air missiles) were “conclusively observed” by the Indian military in the February 27 dogfight, and prompt tactical action by Indian fighter jets helped neutralise the threat.
The IAF also dismissed reports that Pakistan claimed it shot down an Indian Sukhoi-30 during the aerial combat, saying it appeared to be a cover-up for losing a Pakistani F-16 jet during the operation.
“False claim by Pakistan of shooting down a Su-30, appears to be a cover up for the loss of its own aircraft,” the IAF said in a statement.
“Prompt and correct tactical action by Su-30 aircraft, in response to AMRAAM launch, defeated the missile. Parts of the missile fell in area East of Rajouri in J&K, injuring a civilian on ground. Detailed report in this regard has already been released by IAF,” the statement added.
Last week, the IAF showed a fragment for an AMRAAM that, it said, was fired by a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet. Pakistan has denied that it lost (or even used) F-16 jets in the dogfight.
The IAF statement reiterated that India’s air defence batteries, which were on full alert, detected a build up of PAF fighters on their side of the line of control on February 27, a day after the IAF jets targetted a Jasih-e-Mohammed (JeM) camp in Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
“In their attempt to attack our ground targets, PAF aircraft were engaged effectively. From IAF side, Mirage-2000, Su-30 and MiG-21 Bison aircraft were involved in the engagement,” the IAF said. “PAF aircraft were forced to withdraw in a hurry, which is also evident from large missed distances of the weapons dropped by them,” its statement added.
India lost a MiG-21 Bison aircraft in the February 27 dogfight, and its pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was taken captive by Pakistan before being released two days later.
Explained: India’s policy shift in sharing Indus waters with Pakistan
Since the terrorist attack in Uri in 2016, India has worked to ensure it utilises its full claim under the Indus Waters Treaty. Several stalled projects have been revived, and many have been put on the fast track.
Power project on Kishanganga, a tributary of the Jhelum , in J&K. (Express Photo: Neeraj Priyadarshi/Archive)
Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari recently tweeted that the government had decided to stop India’s share of waters in the Indus river system from flowing into Pakistan. Coming amidst noisy calls for a strong retaliation against the Pulwama terror attack, Gadkari’s statement seemed to indicate a new policy direction from the government. That clearly was not the case, as the government also clarified after some time. The policy direction had, in fact, changed more than two years earlier — in the wake of another terrorist attack, on an Army camp in Uri in September 2016.
After the Uri attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that “blood and water” could not flow together, and India had temporarily suspended regular meetings of the Indus Commissioners of the two countries.
A much bigger shift was signalled a few weeks later, when India decided to exert much greater control over the waters of the Indus basin, while continuing to adhere to the provisions of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty that governs the sharing of these waters with Pakistan. A high-level task force was set up under the stewardship of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister to ensure that India makes full use of the waters it is entitled to under the Treaty.
Rights to be utilised
India has not been utilising its full claims, and letting much more water flow to Pakistan than has been committed under the Treaty.
The Indus Waters Treaty gives India full control over the waters of the three Eastern rivers, Beas, Ravi and Sutlej — ‘Eastern’ because they flow east of the ‘Western’ rivers — while letting the waters of the three Western rivers of Indus, Jhelum and Chenab flow “unrestricted” to Pakistan. India is allowed to make some use of the waters of the Western rivers as well, including for purposes of navigation, power production and irrigation, but it must do so in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty.
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Historically, India has never made full use of its rights, neither on the Eastern nor on the Western rivers. On the Western rivers specifically, there has been no pressing demand for creation of new infrastructure on the Indus rivers, either for hydroelectricity or irrigation. With a large proportion of farmers in Jammu and Kashmir having moved to horticulture from traditional crops, the demand for irrigation has gone down over the years. After the devastating floods of 2014, it was argued that storage infrastructure could have been built on these rivers as a flood-control measure.
As a result of India’s under-utilisation of its share of waters, Pakistan has over the years benefited more than it is entitled to under the Treaty. Pakistan’s dependence on the waters of the Indus basin cannot be overstated. More than 95% of Pakistan’s irrigation infrastructure is in the Indus basin — about 15 million hectares of land. It has now become the world’s largest contiguous irrigation system, comprising over 60,000 km of canals. Three of Pakistan’s biggest dams, including Mangla, which is one of the largest in the world, is built on the Jhelum river. These dams produce a substantial proportion of Pakistan’s electricity.
Post Uri, India’s decision to change the status quo and use more waters of the Indus rivers was made with the calculation that it would hurt the interests of Pakistan, which has become used to the excess water and built its infrastructure around it.
What moved after Uri
One that moved quickly was the 800MW Bursar hydroelectric project on the Marusudar river, one of the tributaries of the Chenab, in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Under direct monitoring of the Prime Minister’s Office, a revised detailed project report was finalised, prompt environmental clearance was granted, and an attractive rehabilitation package for affected families was disbursed. Recently, work has also been started. Bursar will be India’s first project on the Western rivers to have storage infrastructure.
The same happened with the Shahpur-Kandi project in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, work on which was stalled for several years because of a dispute between the governments of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. In March 2017, the Centre summoned the representatives of the two states, brokered a solution, and directed that work be resumed.
A much bigger project, the 1,856-MW Sawalkot project on the Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir, was also given the final go-ahead in 2017, and work is expected to start soon. Similar is the case of the Ujh project in Jammu and Kashmir.
Officials say more than 30 projects are under various stages of implementation on the Western rivers, having got the final approvals. Many of these were started after the change in policy in 2016. Many of them have been accorded the status of national projects. Another eight projects are said to be in the planning stage.
Pakistan’s claims
Even before India’s shift in policy, Pakistan had often complained that it was being denied its due share of waters, and that India had violated the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty in the manner it had designed and implemented many of its projects on the Indus rivers. In the last few years, several Pakistani academics have argued that the Treaty has failed to protect the interests of Pakistan, and that India has managed to manipulate the provisions in its favour.
The result has been an increasing number of objections being raised by Pakistan on the projects that are coming up in India. The two countries have permanent Indus Water Commissions that meet regularly not just to share information and data, but also to resolve disputes. Until a few years ago, most of these disputes would be resolved through this bilateral mechanism. The dispute over the Baglihar dam was the first one that Pakistan referred to the World Bank, which had brokered the Indus Waters Treaty.
Baglihar, which was adjudicated upon by a neutral expert, did not go Pakistan’s way. In the case of the Kishanganga project, where the matter was referred to a Court of Arbitration, a higher level of conflict resolution under the Treaty, Pakistan managed to get a partially favourable decision. Some disputes over the Kishanganga have remained unresolved and are currently being addressed.
In recent years, Pakistan has raised objections on many other projects, including the Ratle project, the Pakal Dul dam, and Sawalkot. Officials say the main objective of Pakistan seems to be to delay these projects, thereby forcing a cost escalation and making them economically unviable.
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Last month, the Indus Commissioner of Pakistan was in India to visit some of these projects, as can be done once in five years in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty.
he IAF fighter JEt carries out a fire power demonstration at Pokhran on Saturday. PTI
The IAF on Saturday carried out a drill involving 140 jets and attack helicopters in Pokhran, in a fire power demonstration close to the border with Pakistan. At the inauguration of the Vayu Shakti exercise, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa said, “I wish to assure the nation of the IAF’s capability and commitment in meeting security challenges.”
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