Chinese engineers ‘stopped work on Diamer Bhasha dam’

After Dasu and Tarbela dams, Chinese companies have suspended the civil work on Diamer Bhasha Dam, however, Chinese residents are still working on Mohmand Dam in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

About 500 Chinese nationals are engaged in the construction of the dam at Diamer Bhasha Dam while the local staff have been instructed to stay at home until further orders.

On Tuesday, a bus loaded with explosives collided with an explosives-laden bus on the Karakoram highway in Bisham, killing 5 Chinese engineers working on the Dasu Dam.

An official working on the project confirmed that the Chinese company has stopped work on Dasu Dam and local staff have been asked to stay home.

About 741 Chinese and 6,000 local people are working on the 4320 MW Dasu Dam in Upper Kohistan district.

GM Diamer Bhasha Dam Nizakat Hussain also confirmed that the Chinese company has stopped work on the dam.

He said that about 500 Chinese citizens are engaged in the construction of the dam, The FWO staff is working on it and 6,000 local people are also engaged in the work on the dam.

He hoped that the situation would return to normal in a few days, resulting in the return of the Chinese workers.

Diamer Bhasha Dam will generate 4800 MW of electricity through hydropower generation.

Mohmand Dam GM Asim Rauf said that 250 Chinese are working on Mohmand Dam and they have not stopped the work.

Meanwhile, the Chinese Embassy has said that any attempt to sabotage Pakistan-China cooperation will never succeed.

The Chinses Embassy in Islamabad says this in a statement.

Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi went to the Chinese Embassy and briefed the Chinese ambassador and an investigative team from China about the progress in the investigation of the Shangla attack.