SRINAGAR: PDP supremo Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said reopening settled issues would create tension and benefit the BJP, a day after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah claimed the Indus Water Treaty restricted Jammu and Kashmir from realising its full hydel power potential.
Abdullah on Tuesday said the treaty between India and Pakistan was restricting the Union Territory’s ability to harness its huge hydel power potential, primarily due to storage constraints.
India and Pakistan signed the treaty in 1960 after nine years of negotiations, with the World Bank being a signatory to the pact that sets out a mechanism for cooperation and information exchange between the two sides on the use of waters of a number of cross-border rivers in Jammu and Kashmir.