Srinagar, May 16 -- A fresh political debate has erupted over the Tulbul Navigation Project after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah spoke about its revival, citing the recent "temporary suspension" of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan.

In a post on X, Abdullah shared visuals of the unfinished Tulbul Barrage at Wular Lake in north Kashmir and questioned whether the stalled project could now be resumed. "The civil works you see in the video is the Tulbul Navigation Barrage. It was started in the early 1980s but had to be abandoned under pressure from Pakistan citing the Indus Water Treaty," he wrote. "Now that the IWT has been 'temporarily suspended' I wonder if we will be able to resume the project. It w...