Pakistan will move the court of arbitration after the latest round of talks with India over the Kishanganga dam project ended in failure, a media report said Tuesday.
The mission was a complete failure, Pakistan's Commissioner on the Indus Basin Treaty Syed Jammat Ali Shah was quoted by the daily Dawn as saying on his return from New Delhi.
The commission, he said, will now recommend that the government initiate legal processes and move the World Bank for arbitration, as it had done in the case of Baglihar dam.
Shah said Islamabad could still take it up with Delhi (at the government level) before going to the World Bank. But one thing was certain that the commission had failed to resolve the crisis, he added.
The failure had been made part of the minutes of the meeting, which were signed on Sunday afternoon. Shah said that India wanted to sign the minutes of the meeting through correspondence, but he "refused and stayed back for another day to make the failure part of record".
India has failed to address all six objections that Pakistan had raised during the decade-long negotiations.
"Pakistan has no other option but to resort to legal proceedings under the Article 9/2 of the Indus Basin Treaty, which allows it to go for the court of arbitration," he said.
