Militants sabotage works on J&K lake

After failing to stall the J&K hydel-power projects through international arbitration, Pakistan tasked militants to ‘sabotage the flood protection works’ on the Wullar Lake in north Kashmir.

A group of seven militants barged into the project site and thrashed engineers and workers forcing them to suspend the flood protection work and Wullar conservation project, claiming the plan will hamper the river water discharge to Pakistan.

Militants later set-off an improvised explosive device close to the abandoned Tulbul Navigation Lock/Wullar Barrage. India had abandoned the work on the Wullar Barrage/Tulbul Navigation Lock Project in mid eighties after Pakistan claimed it violated the Indus Water Treaty.