Baglihar dam resolution likely in January

Secretary, Water and Power, Ashfaque Mahmood, has expressed optimism regarding resolution of Pak-India conflict on Baglihar dam in January next year.
Talking to newsmen at Lahore Airport on return from India on Saturday, he said that during his visit to the site of Baglihar dam, it revealed that 60 percent work on the project has already been completed and construction of power station was in an advanced stage.
The neutral experts of World Bank have called the Pak-Indian experts for a joint meeting to be held in Geneva from November 19 to 21.
He said that Pakistan would submit its detailed report on the Baglihar dam issue by the end of next month, and India would be required to submit reply on the issues to be raised in it by January 3, 2006. A joint meeting of experts of India, Pakistan and World Bank will be held in mid-January 2006.