NEW DELHI, July 24: A team of experts from India and Pakistan inspected the Baglihar dam project in Doda on Sunday, preparing the grounds for a World Bank-sponsored visit there in September by the Swiss mediator, Raymond Lafitte, official sources said.
Mr Lafitte, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, has been asked by the World Bank to investigate the differences between the two governments concerning the construction of the controversial project on the Chenab river.
The Chenab is one of the rivers comprising the Indus river system. After the partition of the sub-continent, the Indus Waters Treaty was concluded with support from the World Bank in 1960.
Headed by Comissioner, Pakistan Ground Water Commission, Syed Jamaatullah Shah, the Pakistani delegation includes Bashir Ahmed, Asif Baig, Peter Joseph and Izharullah Haq while the Indian team is headed by Commissioner, Indus Water Treaty D.K. Mehta.
