Officials from India and Pakistan held talks Tuesday to resolve a dispute over India's plan to dam a lake in the divided region of Kashmir that Pakistan fears will deprive its farmers of vital water supplies. India began work on the Tulbul Navigation Project on Wular Lake in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir in 1984, but stopped three years later after Islamabad complained the dam would control the course of water into the Jhelum River that flows into Pakistan. India says it is constructing the dam to make a 20-kilometer (12-mile) shallow stretch of the river navigable during the drier summer months. The Tulbul Navigation Project is one of eight issues that India and Pakistan have identified as irritants in their ongoing peace dialogue, according to a report of The Associated Press.
