ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari warned that any breach of a river water-sharing treaty by India will be detrimental to the peace process between the nuclear-armed neighbors, media reports said yesterday.
The statement came two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 450-megawatt Baglihar hydroelectric project over the Chenab River that flows from Indian-administered Kashmir into Pakistan.
“Pakistan would be paying a very high price for India’s move to block Pakistan’s water supply from the Chenab River,” Zardari said Sunday in a statement released through the Associated Press of Pakistan newswire.
Indian National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan told the NDTV news channel in an interview aired on the same day that Chenab water would not be blocked as “India does not want a conflict on the issue.”
