In the executive summary of the report, obtained by
HydroNews.net, a �neutral expert� resolved differences between
Pakistan and India over India's project to build the 450-MW
first phase of the 900-MW Baglihar Dam in the shared Indus River
Basin. India is building the disputed project on the Chenab
River, which flows from Indian Kashmir into Pakistan. Islamabad
objected to its design saying it violated the World Bank-
brokered Indus Waters Treaty of 1960. Under treaty terms, the
World Bank named Raymond Lafitte, a professor at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, to be
a neutral expert (NE) to resolve the dispute. Both sides have
said they would comply with his findings, which the treaty says
are binding. Lafitte presented his report to the India and
Pakistan embassies in Bern February 12, but, under terms of the
proceeding, did not make the report public. Both countries then
announced the report largely backed their conflicting stands.
(HNN 2/12/07) The executive summary, obtain