Several hundred metres underground, thousands of labourers grind away day and night on a huge hydroelectric project in contested Kashmir, where India and Pakistan are racing to tap the subcontinent’s diminishing freshwater supplies. The arch rivals have been building duelling power plants along the banks of the turquoise Neelam River for years. The projects on opposite sides of The Line of Control – the de facto border in Kashmir – are nearly finished, fuelling tensions between the neighbours with Pakistan particularly worried its downstream project will be deprived of much-needed…
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