Since Sunday morning, the water flow has been throttled by almost 90% of the usual volume that passes to Pakistan, according to Muhammad Khalid Idrees Rana, spokesman for Pakistan’s Indus River System Authority. The nation will be forced to slash water supplies to farms by a fifth if the flow remains curtailed, he said.After a week of discussions and hydrological testing, India began de-silting operations in the Baglihar dam and lowered sluice gates, reducing downstream flow to Pakistan by up to 90%, while similar operations have been planned for the Kishanganga dam, an official from the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation said on Sunday.
“We have closed the gates of the Baglihar hydel power project. We had done de-silting of the reservoir and it has to be refilled. The process was started on Saturday,” said a second official, who declined to be named.
India’s actions came within hours of Pakistan’s testing its surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Saturday, including banning of the docking of ships bearing the Pakistani flag in all ports of the country.
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The Kishanganga dam, the first mega hydropower plant located in the north western Himalayas in the Gurez valley, will also undergo massive maintenance work “very soon” and all flow from it downstream will be halted. Pakistan has objected to the designs of both these dams.
India paused the six-decade-old Indus water treaty with Pakistan, already strained by long-running disputes, a day after terrorists had killed dozens of tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22.
The second official said, “since India has kept the IWT in abeyance, we are exploring all possible ways to use our river waters for the benefit of our citizens”.
On Saturday, authorities of the Jal Shakti ministry updated the Union home ministry on a raft of measures being planned to augment water supply to northern states from the Indus system rivers. “We are ready with stringent punitive measures against Pakistan and nearly 50 engineers from the NHPC are already in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir to oversee the operations,” the first official said.
In this context, he said that India has made steady progress on four ongoing hydel power projects over the Chenab river and its tributaries in Jammu and Kashmir and they are likely to be commissioned in 2027-28.
These projects — Pakal Dul (1,000 MW), Kiru (624 MW), Kwar (540 MW), and Ratle (850 MW) — are being implemented through a joint venture between NHPC and the Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stones of Pakal Dul, Kiru and Kwar hydel power projects on May 19, 2018, February 3, 2019 and April 22, 2022, respectively.
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“Pakal Dul project has made 66 per cent progress, Kiru 55 per cent, Kwar 19 per cent and Ratle has made 21 per cent progress,” he said.
On the 930 MW Kirthai project, he said that following a memorandum between JKSPDC and NHPC, pending clearances were under process.
On the Ratle project, he said that a coffer dam, a pre-dam structure, was nearing completion.
“There’s 21 per cent physical progress made so far. We expect to complete it by November 2028,” he added.
The official informed that the work on the Ratle project gained momentum after 2023.
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To be sure, Pakistan had protested against the Ratle and Kishenganga projects alleging that their designs violated the Indus waters treaty. In June 2024, a five-member Pakistan delegation and World Bank-appointed neutral expert Michel Lino inspected the Ratle power project at Drabshalla in Kishtwar.
Put together, Pakal Dul, Kiru, Kwar, and Ratle have a total capacity of 3,014 MW of hydel power. These projects are expected to generate over 10,541 million units (MU) of electricity annually. Jammu and Kashmir has an estimated hydropower potential of 18,000 MW, with 11,283 MW identified in the Chenab basin alone.
However, only 23.81% of the total identified capacity has been harnessed to date. Of the total potential, 11,283 MW is in the Chenab basin, 3,084 MW in the Jhelum basin and 500 MW in the Ravi basin.
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At least $500 million worth of Pakistani items are still being repackaged and relabelled in a third country to access the Indian market.
In the wake of the ban on Pakistani merchandise imports, the customs department is on high alert to thwart Islamabad’s attempts to access the Indian market through a third country, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Singapore, Indonesia, or Sri Lanka, people in the know said on Sunday.
Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers stand guard as tourists arrive to watch the retreat ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post on the outskirts of Amritsar on April 24, 2025.(AFP)
Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers stand guard as tourists arrive to watch the retreat ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post on the outskirts of Amritsar on April 24, 2025.(AFP)
At least $500 million worth of Pakistani fruits, dry dates, textiles, soda ash, rock salt, and leather items are still being repackaged and relabelled in a third country to access the Indian market, the people said, requesting anonymity because they are not authorised to speak on the matter.
To be sure, Indian imports from Pakistan through the official channel are negligible, but Pakistani items come in via third countries. Hence, the government on May 2 issued an order banning all direct and indirect imports from Pakistan.
“The idea is to choke Pakistani exports as Pakistan’s economy is already crippled and vulnerable,” one of the people said.
The first major blow to Pakistan’s economy was dealt when India withdrew its most favoured nation (MFN) status after the Pulwama terror attack in February 2019, citing “incontrovertible evidence” showing the neighbouring country’s direct involvement in the act of terrorism that killed CRPF jawans.
Besides withdrawing the MFN status, New Delhi imposed a 200% customs duty on imports from Pakistan, leading to a sharp fall in shipments from across the border. Pakistani imports that were worth $2.39 million in 2020-21, gradually fell to almost negligible ($0.42 million) in the first 10 months of 2024-25, said an official.
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