Pakistan, May 18 -- Pakistan expressed on Sunday "utmost satisfaction" over a supplemental award by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) that it said affirmed Islamabad's position of the Indus Waters Treaty placing "substantive limits on India's water-control capability" on Indus River system's western rivers.

The decision pertained to maximum pondage - a technical term for the maximum volume of water that could be stored in a reservoir - in Indus Waters Treaty proceedings arising from design disputes concerning the Ratle Hydroelectric Plant and the Kishenganga Hydroelectric Project in occupied Kashmir, a statement issued by the Pakistan government said.

According to the statement, the supplemental award was issued on May 15. Howeve...